A Brief History of Time
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By: Dr. Marco V. Benavides Sánchez. A Brief History of Time , published in 1988, is one of the most influential works of popular science of the twentieth century. In this book, Stephen Hawking undertakes the ambitious task of explaining the fundamental concepts of modern cosmology—such as the origin, structure, and fate of the universe—to a general audience, deliberately avoiding complex mathematical formulations. The book opens with a historical overview of humanity’s evolving understanding of the cosmos. Hawking traces the development of astronomical thought from the geocentric models of Aristotle and Ptolemy to the heliocentric revolution initiated by Copernicus and reinforced by Galileo and Kepler. This intellectual journey culminates in Isaac Newton’s laws of motion and gravitation, which dominated scientific thinking for centuries, and later in Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Hawking emphasizes how Einstein transformed our understanding of gravity by describ...