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A Brief History of Time

by Stephen Hawking · 1988

Popular Science · ranked #1 in category

Black holes, the Big Bang and the shape of the cosmos for the general reader; the bestseller that made physics fashionable.

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Category
Popular Science
First published
1988 · 1980s
Author
Stephen Hawking
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