MUSIC OF THE SPHERES
THE MATERIAL UNIVERSE FROM ATOM TO QUASAR,
SIMPLY EXPLAINED
VOL. I, THE MACROCOSM: PLANETS, STARS, GALAXIES, COSMOLOGY

Beginning with the solar system and reaching all the way to the dividing line between matter and non-matter, this popular-level account of our material universe explains with remarkable clarity a vast range of the latest scientific understandings. Newly revised to incorporate ideas and implications that have emerged since its original publication (1961), it is a book that should be warmly welcomed by all readers who are curious about nature's secrets.

Volume I, The Macrocosm: Planets, Stars, Galaxies, Cosmology, ranges over the creation of mountains and oceans on Earth, Earth's environment and atmosphere, the history of flight and space travel, the lunar surface, Saturn's rings, planetary motion, Brahe and Kepler, meteorites and comets, foreign galaxies, new celestial discoveries and other topics of astronomy.

Volume II, The Microcosm: Matter, Atoms, Waves, Radiation, Relativity, deals equally well with molecular forces, Lavoisier, Mendeleyev and the elements, chemical action, heat, crystals, Descartes, Newton's laws, mesons, nuclear energy, the quantum, electricity and magnetism, the physics of music, light and color, X-rays, probability, antimatter an antigravity, calendars and clocks, Einstein and the repercussions of relativity theory, the fourth dimension, space-time, an other topics in physics and chemistry.