VIEW FROM A HEIGHT
by Isaac Asimov
Seventeen crackerjack essays again give witness to the clarity and pleasure with which Asimov writes on favorite topics in biology, physics, chemistry, and astronomy for the reader with a modicum of knowledge and interest in science subjects. These varied pieces are full of intriguing commentary on such as size, compactness, and complexity of organic organization in nature; other kinds of possible life in the universe; behavior of gases; isotopes; micro-division of time; entropy; hotness; physical structure of the earth; aspects of the planets; etc. Fascinating speculative descriptions will delight the imagination with their recision and good-humor. These are excellent examples of the modern scientific essay which very few writers today can equal in style, form, and content.