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Stephen Hawking's Life Works: The Cambridge Lectures

by Stephen Hawking · 1994

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This series of lectures, given at Cambridge University, introduces listeners to the history of ideas about the Universe as well as today's most important scientific theories about time, space, and the cosmos.

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