Every month the readheads pick one book that all three of us read and review. Our first book of the month for 2010(!) is Timothy Ferris’ Coming of Age in the Milky Way (2003 edition).
Synopsis from Publishers Weekly:
The ancient Egyptians regarded the sky as a kind of tent canopy. Thirty centuries later, astronomer William Herschel argued that the sun belongs to a huge cluster of stars (a galaxy, as we call it today) and charted great swaths of intergalactic space through a telescope. How the human species slowly awakened to the vast reaches of space and time is the story absorbingly told by popular science writer Ferris (The Red Limit, Galaxies). His narrative humanizes the scientific enterprise […] from Darwin’s and Lyell’s investigations of the age of the earth to modern physicists’ quest for a perfectly symmetrical, hyperdimensional universe.
Have you guys read Coming of Age in the Milky Way? If so, please tell us what you thought in the comments! If not, the start of a new year is the perfect time to learn more about the history of the universe and our understanding of it. Read along with us and check back for our reviews later this month!
Updated: Check out our reviews: Kim’s and Ranjana’s.
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