Jacques Blamont

The Number and The Dream

John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin

From Here to Infinity The Royal Observatory Greenwich Guide to Astronomy

Dava Sobel

Galileo’s Daughter

This is a most unusual biography about Galileo’s daughter. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was regarded by Albert Einstein not only as the father of modern physics but as the father of all modern science. His eldest child, Virginia, mirrored Galileo’s own brilliance, industry and sensibility, and by virtue of these qualities became his confidante. Their correspondence, reproduced throughout the book, reveals their intense relationship, based on tender attachment and intellectual stimulation. The little-known life of Maria Celeste gives a human dimension to one of the major seventeenth-century scientists. His struggle with the Church is a lasting symbol of the conflict between science and religion. Galileo’s Daughter offers a powerful account of papal Rome and of Florentine intellectual life during the time of the Medicis. Dava Sobel is a writer who lives in New York

Michel Cassé, Marie-Christine Maurel

Xenobiology Xeno-life

When an astrophysicist encounters a specialist in synthetic biology, they discuss the origins of the universe and of life. The first steps of a new science, whose repercussions could shake our conception of the living and of its evolution.

Joseph Silk

Une brève histoire de l'univers

Joseph Silk is the author of an authoritative book on the Big Bang. In the present work, he covers the history of the universe from that first great explosion and shows how the most recent discoveries in astrophysics — i.e. of the cosmic fluctuations from which the great structures of the universe emerged — provide the missing link between the Big Bang, which occurred 15 billion years ago, and the present state of the universe. When did time begin? This is the question, already asked by Stephen Hawking, that A Short History of the Universe sets out to answer. It is the subject of current debate among theologians: Did time begin with the Big Bang, in which case God could not have created the universe, or has time existed for all eternity, which would mean that the Big Bang was just one event among others, that God could have existed before it occurred and that He could thus have created the universe? This highly accessible book will be of interest to a wide readership, since the issues examined here concern all of us. Joseph Silk, an astrophysicist and cosmologist, teaches at Oxford University.

André Brahic

Of Fire and Ice Ardent Planets

A journey through the Universe to explore the mysteries of giant planets

Roger Penrose

Cycles of Time An Extraordinary New View of the Universe

This groundbreaking book presents a new perspective on three of cosmology’s essential questions: What came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? And what cosmic future awaits us?

Michel Cassé

The Void and Eternity

A synthesis of current cosmological theories, by one of the greatest astrophysicists of our time