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Author Morrison, Philip.

Title Powers of ten : a book about the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero / by Philip and Phylis Morrison and the Office of Charles and Ray Eames
Published Redding, Conn. : Scientific American Library ; San Francisco : Distributed by W.H. Freeman, [1982]
©1982

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Description 150 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Looking at the world: An essay -- Journey: In comment: Rules for a journey of mind and eye -- Powers of 10: How to write numbers large and small -- Units of length -- Reading the rainbow -- Instrumental vision -- Chronology -- Sources and notes -- Resources for the reader -- Index
Summary Powers of ten--a film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero (Motion picture)
Analysis Cosmology Miscellanea
Powers of ten--a film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero (Motion picture)
Link Powers of ten:a book about the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero
Notes "Based on the film Powers of ten by the Office of Charles and Ray Eames."
Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 148-150
Notes "Based on the film Powers of ten by the Office of Charles and Ray Eames."
SUBJECT Powers of ten (Motion picture)
Powers of ten--a film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero (Motion picture) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96104927
Subject Cosmology -- Miscellanea.
Cosmology.
Distances -- Measurement.
Exponential functions.
Exponents (Algebra)
Space and time.
Cosmology
Universe
Author Morrison, Phylis, 1927-2002.
Office of Charles and Ray Eames.
LC no. 82005504
ISBN 0716714094 (W.H. Freeman)
OTHER TI Powers of ten