Books with title The Science of Gravity

Janie Hunter’s plans for seventh grade (including weekly jam sessions, Art Club, volleyball, and maybe Pom Squad) change when she qualifies for a special science program. The challenges intensify as friends, classes, and her mother pull her in different directions. Ransom Noble catches the struggles of early teen years in this Young Adult novel, with black and white illustrations by Stephen Macquignon.

Despite gravity's importance, people have started to understand it only in the last three hundred years or so. Before the seventeenth century, astronomers had little idea what kept the planets in orbit and no idea that it was the same force that made objects fall to Earth. This book traces the history of discoveries about gravity from ancient beliefs about the universe to modern-day research into black holes.

This book is part of a series that attempts to make science discovery fun. Including puzzles, tricks, games and things to do and make, using items found around the home or in the classroom, each activity explains something about the importance of a particular aspect of science in the world. This particular book looks at gravity and is written by the co-winner of the Science Book Prize in 1989 and the TES Senior Information Book Award.