View from a Height
View from a Height is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the second of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, written between 1959 and 1962. It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1963.
The collection includes the essay "By Jove!", the source of the Asimov misquote describing the Solar System as "Jupiter plus debris". The actual quote is "4 planets plus debris".Contents
- Part I: Biology
- *"That's About the Size of It"
- *"The Egg and Wee"
- *"That's Life!"
- *"Not as We Know It"
- Part II: Chemistry
- *"The Element of Perfection"
- *"The Weighting Game"
- *"The Evens Have It"
- Part III: Physics
- *"Now Hear This!"
- *"The Ultimate Split of the Second"
- *"Order! Order!"
- *"The Modern Demonology"
- *"The Height of Up"
- Part IV: Astronomy
- *"Hot Stuff"
- *"Recipe for a Planet"
- *"The Trojan Hearse"
- *"By Jove!"
- *"Superficially Speaking"
