Arguably the most dramatic scientific book ever published, Galileo Galilei’s Sidereus Nuncius announced new and unexpected phenomena in the heavens, “unheard of through the ages,” revealed by a mysterious new instrument. 

With his critically acclaimed best-sellers The Mathematical Tourist and Islands of Truth, Ivars Peterson took readers to the frontiers of modern mathematics. This book provides an up-to-date look at one of science's greatest detective stories: the search for order in the workings of the solar system.

At the bottom of the world, scientists built a telescope unlike any other—buried in a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice. The Telescope in the Ice tells the thrilling story of IceCube, the groundbreaking observatory that detected high-energy neutrinos and opened a bold new frontier in particle physics and astrophysics.

An innovative exploration of the development of a revolutionary optical device and how it changed the world.

“One of the most fascinating stories in the history of science.” —Mark Archer, The Wall Street Journal