Matter: The Magnificent Illusion

by Guido Tonelli

What are we made up of? What holds material bodies together? Is there a difference between terrestrial matter and celestial matter - the matter that makes up the Earth and the matter that makes up the Sun and other stars? When Democritus stated, between the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, that we are made up of atoms, few people believed him. Not until Galileo and Newton in the seventeenth century did people take the idea seriously, and it was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509564144
• ISBN13: 9781509564149
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 220 Pages