Stephen Hawking

1 book on BookJumpr, mentioned 2 times in other books.

Books by Stephen Hawking

• A Brief History of Time (1988): mentions 9 books, mentioned in 2 books

Quotes from Stephen Hawking's books, and about them

• A Brief History of Time on Critique of Pure Reason: “the philosopher Immanuel Kant in his monumental (and very obscure) work Critique of Pure Reason, published in 1781”
• A Brief History of Time on The City of God: “Another argument was put forward by St. Augustine in his book The City of God.”
• A Brief History of Time on Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: “The book, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, was completed and published in 1632”
• A Brief History of Time on Two New Sciences: “It was this work, referred to as Two New Sciences, even more than his support for Copernicus, that was to be the genesis of modern physics.”
• A Brief History of Time on Principia Mathematica: “Sir Isaac Newton published his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, probably the most important single work ever published in the physical sciences.”
• A Brief History of Time on On the Heavens: “the Greek philosopher Aristotle, in his book On the Heavens, was able to put forward two good arguments for believing that the earth was a round sphere”
• A Brief History of Time on The System of the World: “Laplace included it in only the first and second editions of his book The System of the World, and left it out of later editions”
• A Brief History of Time on 100 Authors Against Einstein: “When a book was published entitled 100 Authors Against Einstein, he retorted, “If I were wrong, then one would have been enough!””
• A Brief History of Time on The Time Machine: “Wells in The Time Machine explored these possibilities as have countless other writers of science fiction.”
• Hitch-22 on A Brief History of Time: “Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, from the bag of books taken to Iraq.”

Authors Stephen Hawking's books mention

• Galileo Galilei (2): A Brief History of Time mentions Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Two New Sciences
• Anonymous (1): A Brief History of Time mentions 100 Authors Against Einstein
• Aristotle (1): A Brief History of Time mentions On the Heavens
• Augustine of Hippo (1): A Brief History of Time mentions The City of God
• H. G. Wells (1): A Brief History of Time mentions The Time Machine
• Immanuel Kant (1): A Brief History of Time mentions Critique of Pure Reason
• Isaac Newton (1): A Brief History of Time mentions Principia Mathematica
• Pierre-Simon Laplace (1): A Brief History of Time mentions The System of the World

Authors who mention Stephen Hawking

• Christopher Hitchens (1): Hitch-22 mentions A Brief History of Time
• Gabrielle Zevin (1): Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow mentions A Brief History of Time