Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

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Published March 1, 2016

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978-0-399-18441-3
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Italian: Sette brevi lezioni di fisica) is a short book by the Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli. Originally published in Italian in 2014, the book has been translated into 52 languages. More than a million copies have been sold, of which more than 400,000 in Italy.

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Very short book, I've now read it twice. Carlo Rovelli muses on six topics in physics, and while he says no prior knowledge is required, it wouldn't hurt to understand (or at least trust) quantum mechanics. Both accurate and poetic, I suspect it is even more beautiful in the original Italian.

The seventh lesson is about ourselves, and how we fit into the realities described in this thin volume. The book closes with this statement:

"Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking."