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Tonelli, Guido, 1950-
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Cosmology.
Life -- Origin.
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Tonelli, Guido, 1950-
Cosmology.
Life -- Origin.
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Genesis : the story of how everything began /
Guido
Tonelli
; translated from the Italian by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell.
by
Tonelli
,
Guido
,
1950-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Call #:
523.1 T664g
Subjects
Cosmology.
Life -- Origin.
ISBN:
9780374600488 (hc.)
Uniform title:
Genesi. English
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
223 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Translation of: Genesi.
"Originally published in Italian in 2019 by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milano, Italy, as Gesesi"--T. p. verso.
"English translation originally published in 2021 by Profile Books Ltd, Great Britain"--T. p. verso.
Translated from the Italian.
Contents:
Introduction. The grand narrative of origins -- In the beginning was the void -- Day one : an irresistible breath produces the first wonder -- Day two : the delicate touch of a boson changes everything, forever -- Day three : the birth of the immortals -- Day four : and then, at last, there was light -- Day five : the first star lights up -- Day six : and chaos disguised itself as order -- Day seven : a swarming of complex forms -- The human factor -- Epilogue. The massacre of the assumption.
Summary:
"A breakout bestseller in Italy, now available for American readers for the first time, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began is a short, humanistic tour of the origins of the universe, earth, and life-drawing on the latest discoveries in physics to explain the seven most significant moments in the creation of the cosmos"--From publisher.
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