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Why size makes all the difference; A wonderful account of the universe with the history of science, philosophy and evolution thrown in.

Publication: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Publication Date: 09-MAR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Why size makes all the difference; A wonderful account of the universe with the history of science, philosophy and evolution thrown in.(Features)

Article Excerpt
Byline: WILLIAM LEITH

YOU ARE HERE: A PORTABLE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE by Christopher Potter (Hutchinson, [pounds sterling]20)

IN THIS book, which is hugely fun to read, Christopher Potter, who is not a scientist by trade, tries to explain everything -- by which I mean everything in the universe -- in slightly less than 300 pages. I read it in an evening, with a sense of increasing excitement, and then vertigo, and finally a sort of stunned awe. Potter has written a wonderful account of the universe we live in, which is also a history of science, and touches, in some places, on...

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