The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett

The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett

When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld, where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic. The Universe, of course, is our own. And Roundworld is Earth. As the wizards watch their accidental creation grow, we follow the story of our universe from the primal singularity of the Big Bang to the Internet and beyond. Through this original Terry Pratchett story (with intervening chapters from Cohen and Stewart) we discover how puny and insignificant individual lives are against a cosmic backdrop of creation and disaster. Yet, paradoxically, we see how the richness of a universe based on rules, has led to a complex world and at least one species that tried to get a grip of what was going on.

"The hard science is as gripping as the fiction" The Times "An irreverent but genuinely profound romp through the history and philosophy of science, cunningly disguised as a collection of funny stories about wizards and mobile luggageMore that that, it offers a fresh look at the place that humans hold in the history of the planet" -- Richard Wentk Frontiers

Terry Pratchett is the bestselling author of the Discworld novels. Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick. Jack Cohen is a biologist and science writer.

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ISBN 13	9780091886578
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Titel	The Science of Discworld
Autor	Terry Pratchett
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Ebury Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	2002-05-02
Seitenanzahl	416
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