7/8/22

This is a high school level text written by French physicist Jean Charon. Charon does a good job of tracing the development of theories of the universe from ancient Greece to about 1970, which, of course, does not include the latest developments such as the discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. The book is written in layman's terms with no mathematics involved at all. I thought the chapters on Galileo and Descartes were the strongest in the book. A good introductory text on cosmology. ( )