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Author Dyson, Freeman J.

Title Disturbing the universe / Freeman Dyson.

Publication Info. New York : Harper & Row, [1979]
©1979

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  530.092 D    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description x, 283 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents I. England -- The magic city -- The redemption of Faust -- The children's crusade -- The blood of a poet -- II. America -- A scientific apprenticeship -- A ride to Albuquerque -- The Ascent of F6 -- Prelude in E-Flat Minor -- Little red schoolhouse -- Saturn by 1970 -- Pilgrims, saints and spacemen -- Peacemaking -- The ethics of defense -- The murder of Dover Sharp -- The Island of Doctor Moreau -- Areopagitica -- III. Points beyond -- A distant mirror -- Thought experiments -- Extraterrestrials -- Clades and clones -- The greening of the galaxy -- Back to Earth -- The argument from design -- Dreams of Earth and sky.
Subject Dyson, Freeman J.
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Science.
Other Form: Online version: Dyson, Freeman J. Disturbing the universe. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1979 (OCoLC)607768717
ISBN 0060111089: $12.95
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