Stephen Hawking The history of the universe is one of the most perplexing subjects of all time. ... (McDonald, ln. 23) When they went to the Vatican, Hawking saw Galileo's Recantation, the document of Galileo's recanting on his theory that the earth went around the sun, supposedly under the pressure of the church. ... In 1982, faced with the fees of his daughter's schooling, Hawking decided to write his most famous book A Brief History of Time. ... (AAYA, p.60) A Brief History of Time was meant to explain the basic ideas of laws that govern the universe. ... A film has also...

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