Music of Spheres

by Guy Murchie

Book Overview

Beginning with the solar system an reaching all the way to the dividing line between matter and non-matter, this accounting of the material universe explains with remarkable clarity the latest... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486218104
• ISBN13: 9780486218106
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Incorrect Volume sent - Different Book

I pulled up Volume 1 of music of the spheres for $10.99. The listing stated there were other less expensive choices...from new to very good to good. I chose the very good quality and placed my order. I wanted Volume 1 not volume 2. Volume 2 is a completely different book. Not happy as now I have two of the same.

Guy Murchie is both author and composer of this literary symphony of science

Before reading this book I was deaf to the multitude of sweet symphonies and songs and cantatas and preludes and operas sounding in both the furthest reaches of the cosmos and the deepest depths of the microcosms. Guy Murchie not only cured my deafness, but introduced me to the minstrels who sang the songs and the composers who composed the symphonies and the lyricists who wrote the words giving meaning and understanding to the universe all around and within us. Maestro Guy Murchie has well penned a masterpiece of popular science literature as inspiring as Beethoven's Eroica Symphony and as lucid as Vivaldi's Four Seasons. The words he writes are like an opera singing forth the wisdom of the ages with all the silver-sweet songs of science romancing our attentive ears. Patrick Stonehouse

Music of the Spheres is a companion for life.

I first read Music of the Spheres over 30 years ago and that now ragged hardbound copy I read as a teenager is still, as ever since first reading it, the first book pulled from the shelf when I am curious about some natural phenomenon or need to explain in detail some theory of science e.g. Relativity and Quantum theory to one of my children. His poetic elucidations of the workings of the universe both teach the mind and touch the reader's heart. This book, along with his, The Seven Mysteries of Life, will provide both the student and lay teacher ample sources of reference for things scientific for a lifetime. Patrick Stonehouse

An eclectic linking of the micro- and the macro-universe

Unequalled for friendliness of tone and accessibility, a personable survey of the microscopic and macroscopic phenomena of the universe. Some of the science is slightly out of date (it was written in 1967) but if you want a thought-provoking introduction to the current views of the physical universe, this is it. I read my copy over and over, and it always gives me new insights in the way Murchie combines ideas that have not been combined before. With excellent illustrations by the author, and the author's own index, which is a deep work of art in itself.