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Titles appearing in SciTech Book News — June 2007

The motion paradox; the 2,500-year-old puzzle behind all the mysteries of time and space.

Mazur, Joseph.
Dutton Books, ©2007    262 p.    $24.95    QC133
978-0-525-94992-3

Mazur (mathematics, Marlboro College) begins with Zeno, of course, and the reception of his motion paradoxes by other ancient Greeks. But after Archimedes died in 212 BCE, no one thought much about time for the next 14 centuries, so he picks up the story again then with Galileo, then Newton and all; and proceeds to when all the tidy bows came undone with Einstein and quantum theory and so on. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)