A Brief History of Time: Illustrated Edition

Author: Stephen Hawking
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Publish Date: 2001-10-01
Features: Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has become a landmark in global science literature since its first publication in 1988. It has been translated into 40 languages, selling nearly 10 million copies, and has become a sensation in the history of international publishing. The illustrated edition comprehensively updates the original content, incorporating new knowledge revealed by observations and Hawking's latest research, accompanied by numerous photographs and computer-generated three-dimensional and four-dimensional space diagrams. Hawking once proudly quoted a reviewer's words: "My books on physics are more popular than Madonna's books on sex." It remains to be seen how much this illustrated edition will inflate the already substantial sales figures. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking has become a landmark in global science literature since its first publication in 1988. It has been translated into 40 languages, selling nearly 10 million copies, and has become a sensation in the history of international publishing. The content of the book covers the cutting-edge knowledge of the nature of the universe, but since then, extraordinary progress has been made in observational techniques both in the micro and macrocosms. These observations have confirmed many of Professor Hawking's theoretical predictions in the earlier edition, including the recent discovery of the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, which traced back to within 300,000 years of the universe's creation and revealed the ripples in the spacetime structure that he had calculated. In order to incorporate the new knowledge revealed by many observations...