- 2003
- year of publication
- 1280
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- Penguin
- ISBN-13
- 978-01-4101-571-2
- EAN
- 9780141015712
- Publication date
- 2003-10-30
- Book
- On the Shoulders of Giants · 2 editions
The publisher on this edition
ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS tells a compelling story, using original papers from Einstein, Copernicus, Galilei, Kepler and Newton. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking explains how these works changed the course of science, ushering astronomy and physics out of the Middle Ages and into the modern world.

