The Copernicus Complex: Caleb A. Scharf
Longlisted for the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Short-listed for Physics World 's Book of the Year
The Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014
A Publishers Weekly To…
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