Popular Physics and Astronomy: An Annotated Bibliography

It is rather paradoxical that the most mathematical of the sciences, physics, should attract a non‐mathematical readership: Stephen Hawking’s editors warned him against using equations in his A Brief History of Time; it would halve his readership. In the event, Hawking used just one equation, wondering whether, if he had omitted it, sales would have doubled. The reason for the paradox is, of course, obvious; such a readership is not searching for the theory of everything (or TOE) or the grand unification theory (GUT), but for God. The compiler of this bibliography is well aware of this; the word...