by Isaac Asimov · Alianza y Club internacional del libro · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420692050
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«El Universo» is Isaac Asimov's popular science essay, published by Alianza and Club internacional del libro in paperback (206 pages).
A journey through the history of astronomy and cosmology: it starts from ancient conceptions of a flat Earth and advances to modern discoveries about quasars. Asimov presents scientific ideas in an accessible way, so that the reader follows the transformation of our image of the universe.
Second volume of the work, subtitled «De la tierra plana a los quásars». Colección Biblioteca Fundamental de Nuestro Tiempo, no. 5. Translated by Miguel Paredes Larrucea; 1984 edition.
For readers interested in astronomy and popular science, as well as for followers of Isaac Asimov's non-fiction work.
Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. He wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Best known for his hard science fiction, Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as popular science and other non-fiction. His work spans nine out of the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system.
