Matter, earth, and sky

618 Pages·1958·105.776 MB·English

by  George Gamow

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MATTER,
EARTH,
AND
SKY
Archimedes in his laboratory, from a sixteenth-century
text by Walther Riff.
The Copernican system ol the world, From De revolution*
bus orbium celestium, \ n I
MATTER
EARTH,
AND
SKY
QAMOW
QEORQE
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