Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist, bestselling author, science icon and the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History, revisits his very first book with a new, updated and revised edition of Merlin’s Tour of the Universe and takes us and his readers on an entertaining and edifying tour of the universe with Merlin, a timeless visitor from Planet Omniscia in the Andromeda Galaxy as he — with help from Merlin’s friends including da Vinci, Magellan, Newton, Einstein, and Hubble — answers questions big and small about the universe with authentic science.
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