''Of Matters Great and Small'' is a collection of seventeen scientific
essay
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal a ...
s by American writer and scientist
Isaac Asimov. It was the eleventh of a series of books collecting essays from ''
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher ...
'', although it also includes one essay from ''
Science Digest
''Science Digest'' was a monthly American magazine published by the Hearst Corporation from 1937 through 1988.
History
''Science Digest'' was first published in January 1937 in an 8 x 5 inch digest size format of about 100 pages. ...
''.
Asimovonline.com
/ref> It was first published by Doubleday & Company
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in 1975.
Contents
*"Constant as the Northern Star" (''F&SF'', August 1973)
*"Signs of the Times" (September 1973)
*"The Mispronounced Metal" (October 1973)
*"The Figure of the Fastest" (November 1973)
*"The Figure of the Farthest" (December 1973)
*"The Eclipse and I" (January 1974)
*"Dance of the Luminaries" (February 1974)
*"The Uneternal Atoms" (March 1974)
*"A Particular Matter" (April 1974)
*"At Closest Range" (May 1974)
*"The Double-Ended Candle" (June 1974)
*"The Inevitability of Life" (''Science Digest'', June 1974)
*"As Easy as Two Plus Three" (''F&SF'', July 1974)
*"Updating the Asteroids" (August 1974)
*"Look Long upon a Monkey" (September 1974)
*"O Keen-eyed Peerer into the Future!" (October 1974)
*"Skewered!" (November 1974)
References
External links
Asimovonline.com
Essay collections by Isaac Asimov
1975 books
Works originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Doubleday (publisher) books
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