An engaging narrative, describing and explaining the transformations undergone by physics during its 2,500 years of development from its origins in Ancient Greece to its current worldwide cultivation
Explores the emergence of "physics" as a distinct field of study and its changing relations with mathematics, experiment, technology, ethics, and the societies that have supported it
Discusses the limits of our knowledge, and the questions physics has yet to answer
First published in hardback as Physics: a short history from quintessence to quarks
Part of the Very Short Introductions series - over nine million copies sold worldwide