Welcome to The book of science. Come here each week to find poetry and commentary on another milestone of the history of science.

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In 1933, Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky described a neutron star and how it forms.

1933

Neutron star Neutron stars Glitches Commentary

Walter Baade, Fritz Zwicky astrophysics

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1784	Black hole Einstein taught Eye splice Commentary	John Michell astrophysics
1635	Magnetic declination True north Polar drift Grivation Commentary	Henry Gellibrand geophysics

Parts of this book

You may jump to some parts of The book of science directly by selecting menu items:

• About, more about this book
• Contents, a table of milestones in the history of science, arranged chronologically
• Elements, tables for the chemical elements
  • Periodic table of the elements
  • Index of elements by year of discovery
  • Index of elements by atomic number
• Scientists, index of scientists, by last name
• Sciences, index of sciences
• Eponymous, index of milestones named after scientists
• Keywords, index of keywords in poems and titles
• Search, where you can search the book by word or phrase

Related works

You may read subsets of The book of science as separate volumes. These generally contain only the last poem on each milestone from the full book:

• Elements of elements of science
• The booklet of science

This web site also includes other works by Tom Sharp and work by other poets.