01448cam a2200277 i 4500 1232344486 TxAuBib 20240413120000.0 220726s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780553109535 0553109537 (OCoLC)1337381190 TxAuBib rda Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018, author. A Brief History of Time / Stephen Hawking. New York : Bantam Books, 2017. ix, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. The intervening years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic worlds. These observations have confirmed many of Professor Hawking's theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book, including the recent discoveries of the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE), which probed back in time to within 300,000 years of the universe's beginning and revealed wrinkles in the fabric of space-time that he had projected. 20240413. Cosmology. History.