Magnitude: The Scale of the Universe By Kimberly Arcand

In the tradition of illustrated science bestsellers, like Thing Explainer and harkening back to the classic film The Powers of Ten, this unique, fully-illustrated, four-color book explores and visualizes the concept of scale in our universe.

In MAGNITUDE, Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke take us on an expansive journey to the limits of size, mass, distance, time, and temperature in our universe, from the tiniest particle within the structure of an atom to the most massive galaxy in the universe; from the speed at which grass grows (about 2 to 6 inches a month) to the speed of light. Fully-illustrated with four-color drawings and infographics throughout and organized into sections including Size and Amount (Distance, Area, Volume, Mass, Time, Temperature), Motion and Rate (Speed, Acceleration, Density, Rotation), and Phenomena and Processes (Energy, Pressure, Sound, Wind, Computation), MAGNITUDE shows us the scale of our world in a clear, visual way that our relatively medium-sized human brains can easily understand.

Book Information

Format: Hardcover

Published: 11/01/2018 

Genre: Mathematics & science, Space science, Atomic & molecular physics

Pages: 162

Dimensions: 285 x 240mm

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