Publication · 1988 CE
A Brief History of Time
History of Astronomy
About the work
Stephen Hawking's best-selling account of cosmology — from the Big Bang to black holes and the nature of time — which brought the deepest questions of the universe to millions of readers.
Author
Knowledge connections
- Published byStephen Hawking
- Part ofContemporary Astronomy
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- BritannicaEncyclopaedia Britannica
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- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
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