Explaining the Universe by John Charap, Princeton University Press, £19.95/$29.95, ISBN 0691006636
“THIS has been the century of science,” remarked the President of the Académie des Sciences in Paris in its final meeting of the century. He was speaking in December 1900.
His words were unknowingly echoed by many science commentators two years ago, most of them celebrating the swiftness of scientific progress in the preceding century. As the latest centennial bandwagon creaks over the horizon, the distinguished physicist John Charap is now belatedly climbing aboard, with this review for the general reader of the past hundred years of…
