In honor of our quixotic quest to defy the tyranny of gravity, Joseph Lanza offers this fun, fact-filled and often vertiginous literary excursion. Mixing history, science, and fevered subjectivity, the author relates some of gravity's most brilliant moments--from the falls of Icarus and Babylon to the dawn of physics, from the evolution of springs to the creation of Wonderbras and the ages of flight and space travel.
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In honor of our quixotic quest to defy the tyranny of gravity, Joseph Lanza offers this fun, fact-filled and often vertiginous literary excursion. Mixing history, science, and fevered subjectivity, the author relates some of gravity's most brilliant moments--from the falls of Icarus and Babylon to the dawn of physics, from the evolution of springs to the creation of Wonderbras and the ages of flight and space travel.
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