Chapter 4: THE PHYSICAL SETTING

THE UNIVERSE

Beginnings: The Story of Origins--of Mankind, Life, the Earth, the Universe
Isaac Asimov

From Stone to Star: A View of Modern Geology
Claude Allegre and translated by Deborah Kurmes Van Dam

Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space
Isaac Asimov

Knowledge and Wonder--The Natural World as Man Knows It
Victor F. Weisskopf

Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe
Dennis Overbye

A Physicist on Madison Avenue
Tony Rothman

Powers of Ten: A Book about the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Zero
Philip and Phylis Morrison and the office of Charles and Ray Eames

Stephen Hawking's Universe
John Boslough