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Asimov on Physics by Isaac Asimov

starshipengineer's review

5.0

Asimov's brilliance at relating both the profound and the obscure concepts characterizing physics through the ages made this an incredibly enjoyable read that I finished very quickly. The fascination stirred by his writing was more than enough to help me overlook the occasional cavalier way in which he describes some concepts (for example, mass and weight), his use of the cgs unit system (for which he can be forgiven, as an artifact of the times), and the occasional flagrantly sexist offhand anecdote (which is rooted in a similar nature, but is also harder to stomach).