''View from a Height'' is a collection of seventeen scientific
essay
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s by American writer and scientist
Isaac Asimov
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. It was the second of a series of books collecting essays from ''
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher ...
'', written between 1959 and 1962. It was first published by
Doubleday & Company
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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
The Solar System Capitalization of the name varies. The International Astronomical Union, the authoritative body regarding astronomical nomenclature, specifies capitalizing the names of all individual astronomical objects but uses mixed "Solar ...
(besides the Sun) as "Jupiter plus debris". The actual quote is "4 planets plus debris".
[Asimov, I. ''View From a Height'' (]Lancer Books
Lancer Books was a publisher of paperback books founded by Irwin Stein and Walter Zacharius that operated from 1961 through 1973. While it published stories of a number of genres, it was noted most for its science fiction and fantasy, particularl ...
, 1963) p. 230
Contents
*Part I: Biology
**"That's About the Size of It" (October 1961)
**"The Egg and Wee" (June 1962)
**"That's Life!" (March 1962)
**"Not as We Know It" (September 1961)
*Part II: Chemistry
**"The Element of Perfection" (November 1960)
**"The Weighting Game" (April 1962)
**"The Evens Have It" (August 1961)
*Part III: Physics
**"Now Hear This!" (December 1960)
**"The Ultimate Split of the Second" (August 1959)
**"Order! Order!" (February 1961)
**"The Modern Demonology" (January 1962)
**"The Height of Up" (October 1959)
*Part IV: Astronomy
**"Hot Stuff" (July 1962)
**"Recipe for a Planet" (July 1961)
**"The Trojan Hearse" (December 1961)
**"By Jove!" (May 1962)
**"Superficially Speaking" (February 1962)
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Essay collections by Isaac Asimov
1963 books
Works originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Doubleday (publisher) books
Science books
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