Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics
- SIGNED hardcover
- New York: Norton, 1988
New York: Norton, 1988. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. 361 pages. Thick 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w. (wrapper toned at edges, visible only from rear). New York: Norton, (1988). First edition. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. With a charming personal inscription, signed by both authors: "For... And may all the forces be with you!"
"Devoted to sharing their own delight and awe before the fundamental mysteries of the cosmos, Frank Wilczek (winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics) and science writer Betsy Devine also have a serious purpose: to reveal to the lay reader how a heightened perception can respond to timeless themes of the physical universe... In their descriptions of the workings of the half-known universe, Wilczek and Devine bring all of us face to face with the beauty of eternal order and the inevitability of rational ends and beginnings." -- wrapper blurb. "Occasionally, there comes along a popular science book that both scientists and non-scientist can read with pleasure and profit, and this is one" --The New Yorker.
"Devoted to sharing their own delight and awe before the fundamental mysteries of the cosmos, Frank Wilczek (winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics) and science writer Betsy Devine also have a serious purpose: to reveal to the lay reader how a heightened perception can respond to timeless themes of the physical universe... In their descriptions of the workings of the half-known universe, Wilczek and Devine bring all of us face to face with the beauty of eternal order and the inevitability of rational ends and beginnings." -- wrapper blurb. "Occasionally, there comes along a popular science book that both scientists and non-scientist can read with pleasure and profit, and this is one" --The New Yorker.