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| Panther Books |
A publishing house in England that, along with Doubleday books in the US, suggested to Asimov that he put together a collection of his early short stories that had not yet appeared in anthology form. The result was The Early Asimov.
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| Pebble in the Sky |
Asimov's first published novel, Doubleday, 1950.
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| "A Piece of Pi" |
An essay written by Isaac Asimov for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
An essay on pi.
Anthologized in Adding a Dimension (1964).
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| Planets For Man
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Asimov's fifth book on astronomy, this one published by Random House in 1964. Aimed at younger readers. (
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| Please Explain
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General science book, collection of essays explaining scientific principles, published by Houghton-Mifflin in 1973.
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Ponticus, Heracleides
(More properly, Heracleides Ponticus |
This Greek astronomer's name is Heracleides Ponticus and it is not divided in the fashion to the right, but on the principle of "If I don't know how to spell a word how can I look it up in the dictionary," we've opted to put it here in the "Ps" even though technically his name is never referred to in this fashion. He is "from" Ponticus, it's not his surname.
Asimov writes about him in "The Tragedy of the Moon," S&FS July 1972, anthologized in The Tragedy of the Moon (1973).
"About 350 BC, this Greek astronomer suggested that Venus and Mercury revolved around the sun. [Only three other planets were known, and because of their orbits they were believed to revolve around the Earth."
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| "Pre-fixing it Up" |
An essay written by Isaac Asimov for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
An essay on the metric system.
Anthologized in Adding a Dimension (1964).
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| Ptolemy |
Namechecked by Asimov in:
"The Tragedy of the Moon," July 1972, anthologized in The Tragedy of the Moon, 1973.
"The Triumph of the Moon," June 1973, anthologized in The Tragedy of the Moon, 1973.
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