Rymdljus: En bok om katastrofer och underverk

by Peter Nilson

Swedish

Genres: Nonfiction, Science

267 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

(17 October 1937 – 8 March 1998) was a Swedish astronomer and novelist. Active at Uppsala University, he compiled a catalogue of galaxies. He was appreciated for a number of essay books (primarily about science) and for a number of science fiction novels like Rymdväktaren, or "The Space Guardian" and Nyaga.

He was born in a Smålandian village and under the early teens a farmer, but science, with its celebrities such as Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein made such an impression on him, as to motivate him to accomplish college studies by letter correspondence. In the early 1960s he began his studies in Uppsala University, initially in mathematics, and thereafter theoretical physics, aesthetics, history of ideas and astronomy.

He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1993.

Reviews

[Emil · Rating 5 out of 5]

Boken har ett språk som gör saker som i annan kontext hade gjort mig uttråkad nu enormt intresserad. Ett fantastiskt sätt skriva fakta på ett skönliterärt sätt.

[Elin Eriksson · Rating 5 out of 5]

En stjärnformad diamant i den svenska litteraturen.

[Carina Palm · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ärvde den av pappa som älskade Peter Nilssons böcker om himlavalvet och universum. Detta var en trevlig blandning av astrologi, historia, vetenskap, science fiction och mytologi. Kan tänka mig att läsa någon mer som omväxling senare.

[Henrik Haapala · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this book to reread