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Cover of Mysterious Universe

Mysterious Universe

James Jeans

Length
4 h 3 min
Chapters
5
Language
English
First published
1930

One of the earliest of the popular science book genre, it is a philosophical summary of the new physics of the era by a leading British physicist. Keeping technical references to a bare minimum, Jeans argues that physics has entered a new age in which mathematical representation has supplanted mechanical models.

This recording was originally published on Legamus.eu and was later released on LibriVox when US copyright permitted. - Summary by Peter Tucker

Chapters

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