Science books

I used to space myself out as a teenager by reading books about the cosmos. I wonder if drugs displaced that, and now only novels can do it? Anyway, this article pertains. "It all started with Stephen Hawking, whose first popular book, A Brief History of Time, hit the bookshops in 1988. With the boom there came a torrent of rubbish. The stylistic innovations of the trendsetters soon became, in the hands of the disciples, stale recipes, recycled over and over in formulaic ways. Even the titles began to seem repetitive: The Panda's Thumb, Galileo's Finger, Einstein's Brain ... What a pity nobody had the chutzpah to write a book about Newton's penis." Maybe Newton didn't see the apple fall from the tree - he saw his penis rising, and started thinking about gravity, and how to defy it.