Gravity Tilted Perspectives on Rocket Ships, Roller Coasters, Earthquakes, and Angel Food

by Lanza, Joseph

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USA: Picador USA. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1997. First US Edition. Hardcover. 0312155379 . 8.5 x 0.75 x 6 Inches; 224 pages; A lighthearted and imaginative history of gravity, in which Lanza relates some of gravity' s most brilliant moments: the falls of Icarus and Babylon, the dawn of physics, the evolution of springs, the ages of flight and space travel, the rise of skyscrapers in our cities, the sensations of the cinema, the heights and depths of eroticism, and the impending threat of killer asteroids. .

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A lighthearted and imaginative history of gravity, in which Lanza relates some of gravity's most brilliant moments: the falls of Icarus and Babylon, the dawn of physics, the evolution of springs, the ages of flight and space travel, the rise of skyscrapers in our cities, the sensations of the cinema, the heights and depths of eroticism, and the impending threat of killer asteroids.

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