Matthew Bothwell Audiobooks

The Invisible Universe: astronomy beyond visible light, read by Matthew Bothwell

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.6/5 average

381 listener ratings

Who is Matthew Bothwell?

Almost everything in the sky is invisible to us, and that is the premise The Invisible Universe takes as its starting point. Visible light is a narrow slice of the spectrum, and astronomy spent most of its history looking through the only window it happened to have.

Matthew Bothwell writes on our science and engineering shelf and reads the recording personally. Popular astronomy carries a particular hazard, that of turning wonder into a slideshow of adjectives, and a writer narrating their own work tends to keep the explanation exactly where the argument put it.

That is what our record supports, and we leave the rest alone.

Matthew Bothwell in audiobooks

The reception is the firmest evidence on this page: a strong score built on several hundred listener verdicts, the sort of base that reflects a genuine readership rather than a launch-week flurry.

Ten hours is the standard shape for popular science and it fits the subject neatly, taking one class of invisible light at a time. The author’s narration makes it approachable for anyone who never sat a physics exam and would like the universe explained without being condescended to.

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