FROM EROS TO GAIA
Signed first edition of this book of essays by the famed theoretical physicist — with a fantastic lengthy inscription on the state of physics.
Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
Price: $1,500.00
FROM EROS TO GAIA
A mathematical prodigy, Dyson would eventually become instrumental in advancing the field of quantum electrodynamics. He originated a number of concepts and theories over the course of his lifetime, several of which bear his name.
Dyson's biographer characterizes him as "an unusual thinker who tackled a range of questions with tenacity." His stated aim in writing this book was "to open windows, to let the experts inside the temple of science see out, and to let the ordinary citizens outside see in." Beginning with a story that Dyson wrote at just nine years old, it includes lectures, articles, ruminations on developing scientific research over the years, and reflections on his time working with Richard Feynman.
This copy includes an unusual 9-line inscription, in which Dyson considers the revolutions in scientific disciplines made possible by physics while questioning his own field's stagnation. A rich exercise in marrying literature and physics, strongly emphasized by the thoughtful inscription.
Read More: Dizikes, Peter, Q&A: David Kaiser on Freeman Dyson, the relentless freethinker, MIT News.
The Object
New York: Pantheon Books, (1992). 9.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter dark blue cloth, blue paper boards, gilt-lettered front board and spine. In original pictorial jacket price-clipped jacket, designed by Marjorie Anderson. xii, 372 pages. Inscribed by Dyson to half-title page: "For Fernando Vega / Freeman Dyson / In recent times my own field of physics has had great success in creating new tools which have started revolutions in biology and astronomy. Physics has been less successful in creating new concepts with which to understand its own discoveries. / November 1996." Jacket with some rubbing, light shelfwear. Book with touches of rubbing to top edge, couple tiny spots of soil to fore-edge, else crisp, tight and clean.
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