Author | Carlo Rovelli |
---|---|
Original title | Sette brevi lezioni di fisica |
Language | Italian |
Subject | Physics |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Publisher | Penguin Books (English edition) |
Publication date | 2014 |
Publication place | Italy |
Published in English | 2015 |
Media type | Print, Digital |
Pages | 96 (English edition) |
ISBN | 9780241235966 (English hardcover edition) |
Website |
sevenbrieflessons |
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics ( Italian: Sette brevi lezioni di fisica) is a short book by the Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli. Originally published in Italian in 2014, by 2021 the book has been translated into 52 languages. [1] More than a million copies have been sold, of which more than 400,000 in Italy. [2]
The book condenses the revelations of post-Newtonian physics – from Einstein's theory of relativity to quantum mechanics – into seven brief, accessible lessons. [3] These were originally serialised in an Italian newspaper. [4] Rovelli uses a literary approach, for instance, highlighting a year Einstein spent apparently aimlessly with the comment that those who don't waste time, won't get anywhere. [5]
The chapters are:
In his native Italy the book has outsold Fifty Shades of Grey, shifting more than 300,000 copies, and it is now being translated into 28 languages.
Author | Carlo Rovelli |
---|---|
Original title | Sette brevi lezioni di fisica |
Language | Italian |
Subject | Physics |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Publisher | Penguin Books (English edition) |
Publication date | 2014 |
Publication place | Italy |
Published in English | 2015 |
Media type | Print, Digital |
Pages | 96 (English edition) |
ISBN | 9780241235966 (English hardcover edition) |
Website |
sevenbrieflessons |
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics ( Italian: Sette brevi lezioni di fisica) is a short book by the Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli. Originally published in Italian in 2014, by 2021 the book has been translated into 52 languages. [1] More than a million copies have been sold, of which more than 400,000 in Italy. [2]
The book condenses the revelations of post-Newtonian physics – from Einstein's theory of relativity to quantum mechanics – into seven brief, accessible lessons. [3] These were originally serialised in an Italian newspaper. [4] Rovelli uses a literary approach, for instance, highlighting a year Einstein spent apparently aimlessly with the comment that those who don't waste time, won't get anywhere. [5]
The chapters are:
In his native Italy the book has outsold Fifty Shades of Grey, shifting more than 300,000 copies, and it is now being translated into 28 languages.