The Nature Of The Physical World
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
At the dawn of the quantum age, one of the greatest scientific minds of the twentieth century stood before a Cambridge audience and delivered a series of lectures that would forever change how humanity understands the fabric of reality — Sir Arthur Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World is the brilliant, authoritative result of those Gifford Lectures of 1927. Eddington, the renowned astrophysicist who provided the first observational confirmation of Einstein's general theory of relativity, presents a sweeping and penetrating account of the new physics, guiding the reader from the classical Newtonian universe through the revolutionary landscapes of relativity and quantum mechanics, arguing that the physical world is far stranger and more wondrous than common sense would suggest. Beyond its scientific rigor, this landmark work grapples with profound philosophical questions about consciousness, free will, and the ultimate nature of matter, illustrating that the boundary between the physical and the metaphysical is far more porous than science had previously admitted. Eddington's prose is a rare achievement — at once precise and poetic, accessible and intellectually formidable — making abstract concepts of entropy, the arrow of time, and wave-particle duality vivid and compelling for both specialist and layperson alike. Published as volume 922 in the celebrated Everyman's Library, this edition stands as a testament to the enduring power of ideas that, nearly a century later, continue to challenge our most fundamental assumptions about what it means to know the universe.
Author: Sir Arthur Eddington
Format: Hardback
Genre: Physics
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
At the dawn of the quantum age, one of the greatest scientific minds of the twentieth century stood before a Cambridge audience and delivered a series of lectures that would forever change how humanity understands the fabric of reality — Sir Arthur Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World is the brilliant, authoritative result of those Gifford Lectures of 1927. Eddington, the renowned astrophysicist who provided the first observational confirmation of Einstein's general theory of relativity, presents a sweeping and penetrating account of the new physics, guiding the reader from the classical Newtonian universe through the revolutionary landscapes of relativity and quantum mechanics, arguing that the physical world is far stranger and more wondrous than common sense would suggest. Beyond its scientific rigor, this landmark work grapples with profound philosophical questions about consciousness, free will, and the ultimate nature of matter, illustrating that the boundary between the physical and the metaphysical is far more porous than science had previously admitted. Eddington's prose is a rare achievement — at once precise and poetic, accessible and intellectually formidable — making abstract concepts of entropy, the arrow of time, and wave-particle duality vivid and compelling for both specialist and layperson alike. Published as volume 922 in the celebrated Everyman's Library, this edition stands as a testament to the enduring power of ideas that, nearly a century later, continue to challenge our most fundamental assumptions about what it means to know the universe.