Gravity's arc
Subtitle: the story of gravity from Aristotle to Einstein and beyond
By: David Darling.
Publisher: J. Wiley
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Gravitation -- History; General relativity (Physics) -- History; Physicists -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude: The weighting game; title: No laughing matter; title: Path of dissent; title: The Parabolic man; title: The day the sky fell; title: Escape from earth; title: One of our planets is missing; title: When gravity became geometry; title: Alpha and omega; title: The ripples of space; title: Disturbing news; title: In the dark; title: All together now; title: Engineers of the continuum.