264pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Bumped spine ends and top corners. Text block edges starting to fox. Previous owner's details on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped.Â
Traces the development of Man's changing view of the mysterious force of gravity, looking back at Aristotle's elements and mechanics, highlighting the ideas which led to Newton's theory of Universal gravitation, and to the eventual emergence of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
