Matter : The magnificent illusion / Guido Tonelli ; translated by Edward Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tonelli, Guido, 1950- author.

Contributor:

Williams, Edward, translator.

Standardized Title:

Materia. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Matter--History.

Matter.

Matter--Philosophy.

Substance (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

ix, 206 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 2025.

Summary:

What are we made up of? What holds material bodies together? Is there a difference between terrestrial matter and celestial matter the matter that makes up the Earth and the matter that makes up the Sun and other stars? When Democritus stated, between the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, that we are made up of atoms, few people believed him.

Notes:

First published in Italian as "Materia: La magnifica illusione" by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli editore, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781509564149 (hbk)

1509564144 (hbk)

OCLC:

1458557810