Introducing Science

by Alan Isaacs

Fine hardcover, good dj that is worn, rubbed. Foreword by Isaac Asimov, Basic Books 1963, Asimov foreword copyright 1964. 244 pages. Book is without marks or writings, pages are clean, book is tight and sturdy.

244 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1963

Reviews

[P.J. MacNamara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got this 1963 paperback in a second-hand shop for peanuts. It's basically about the nature of matter and energy, which as concepts are really quite fascinating. The book has loads of diagrams, charts etc, which really help.

In 2021, this is as much a history book as it is a science book. If you're a modern day science boffin this is definitely not for you, but if you're simply curious, as I am, about what matter and energy really are and how they relate to the universe and to one another, you will surely get something out of this.

You know what? I've got a similar book about the history of plastics somewhere. That's pretty awesome too. I'll let you know if I run across it.

[Amélia Pinto · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book about general science was written in 1963, which doesn’t seem like that long ago. However, by reading this book, we can clearly observe differences between how topics were approached then and how they are approached now. Various scientific topics are touched on in this book, but the explanations seem to lack some information. This can be because the book’s purpose is solely to introduce scientific topics, therefore touching them only briefly, or because nowadays we have a lot more information due to technological and scientific advances. Crazy as it seems, in 55 years science has evolved a lot. This only comes to show how much we still don’t know about our own Universe, and how much we still have to discover. Science is always evolving, and even with new discoveries every single day, we may never understand it completely.
Anyway, I find it fascinating to look at books as historical documents, since they are very reliable ones.