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