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Stephen Hawking for Beginners by J. McEvoy, Icon [1]
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The Consumer’s Good Chemical Guide by John Emsley, W. H. Freeman [3]
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Schrödinger’s Kittens by John Gribbin, Weidenfeld & Nicolson [-]
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Fuzzy Thinking by B. Kosko, Collins [7]
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The Collapse of Chaos by Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart, Penguin [-]
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Nature’s Imagination by John Cornwell, Oxford [-]
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Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman by Richard Feynman, Hutchison [-]
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Newton’s Principia for the Common Reader by S. Chandrasekhar, Oxford [-]
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About Time by Paul Davies, Viking [4]
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Black Holes and Baby Universes by Stephen Hawking, Bantam [5]
It’s remarkable even in the physical sciences that a heavyweight title like Newton’s Principia for the Common Reader should appear among the bestsellers -and outsell the popular Paul Davies. In this mighty, but flawed, work Chandrasekhar tackles Newton’s theories. Sad to say, it is Chandra’s last work – he died in August in Chicago.
Next week. Australia’s top ten.
