Powers of Ten - 1982

"Of all our senses it is vision that most informs the mind. The instruments of science also favor vision, but they extend it into new domains of scale, intensity, and color. It is these domains that the authors traverse in Powers of Ten, a wondrous journey across the universe from its largest known dimension (10²⁵ meters) to its smallest. Forty-two powers of ten span our firm knowledge, beyond that we have only hints and brave conjecture. In Powers of Ten forty-two remarkable vistas present the universe in measured steps as we now know it: From the dimension of one billion light years, where entire galaxies appear as so many specks of dust, we return to the friendlier realm of our solar system. We travel down through the dimensions within grasp of our senses until we reach the atom's interior, where instruments of physics seek the elusive, tantalizing quark. An atlas of the universe and a guide to its exploration, Powers of Ten takes the reader on an extraordinary adventure in magnitudes: From the splendid photographs to the poetic pages of commentary, Powers of Ten is a book to savor, a visual odyssey in which we better comprehend not only the known world but our own place in it." - Powers of Ten: About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe - Philip Morrison and Phylis Morrison, and The Office of Charles and Ray Eames Published 1982, Scientific American Books Softcover. Approx. 8.5x9in. 150pp+index. Covers are a little worn consistent with vintage.