"But no one was there to see it:" First Edition of The First Three Minutes; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Steven Weinberg
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe.
Item Number: 1316
New York: Basic Books, 1979.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist’s most well-known book. Octavo, original black cloth. Inscribed by Steven Weinberg on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing.
In The First Three Minutes, Weinberg attempts to explain the early stages of the Universe after the Big Bang: from Very Early Universe (Planck epoch ending 10−32 seconds after the Big Bang to the Early Universe (starting of the Photon epoch, from 10 seconds after the Big Bang and over). "The First Three Minutes is science writing at its best" (Martin Gardner, New York Review of Books).