Mysterious Universe


One of the earliest of the popular science book genre, it is a philosophical summary of the new physics of the era by a leading British physicist. Keeping technical references to a bare minimum, Jeans argues that physics has entered a new age in which mathematical representation has supplanted mechanical models.

This recording was originally published on Legamus.eu and was later released on LibriVox when US copyright permitted. - Summary by Peter Tucker

Chapters

Foreword 4:04
Section 1 20:36
Section 2 49:13
Section 3 52:14
Section 4 51:29
Section 5 1:05:43