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American science writer and author

Person · Open Library

Born
29 August 1944
Works
22

Top works

  • The future of spacetime
  • The Whole Shebang
  • The Best American Science Writing 2001
  • Murmurs of Earth
  • Chaos und Notwendigkeit. Report zur Lage des Universums

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1944-08-29

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930
Total plays
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Timothy Ferriss, nominated as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People of 2007,” is an angel investor and author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been sold into 34 languages. He has been featured by more than 100 media outlets, including The New York Times, The Economist, TIME, Forbes, Fortune, CNN, and CBS. He speaks six languages, runs a multinational firm from wireless locations worldwide <a href="https:/

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  • In all, Kepler tested seventy circular orbits against 's Mars data, all to no avail. At one point, performing a leap of the imagination like Leonardo's to the moon, he imagined himself on Mars, and sought to reconstruct the path the earths motion would trace out across the skies of a Martian observatory; this effort consumed nine hundred pages of calculations, but still failed to solve the major problem.
  • The most dramatic burst of biological inventiveness came here, just over half a billion years ago, when a whole array of creatures equipped with claws and teeth and tentacles appeared, in what is aptly called the . Its cause is something of a mystery, but the forms taken on by nearly of the organisms on Earth today represent variations of the plans invented during the Cambrian. It makes you wonder just how exotic might be.

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Timothy Ferris
date of birth
1944-08-24
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