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 book received a review in Science Magazine. and The [American Biology Teacher].
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"