{"product_id":"in-the-centre-of-immensities-by-bernard-lovell","title":"'In the Centre of Immensities' by Bernard Lovell","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"122\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eIn the Centre of Immensities\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e is exactly the kind of book that ends up accidentally becoming contemporary again.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"124\" data-end=\"570\"\u003eBernard Lovell was a radio astronomer and founder of Jodrell Bank Observatory, but the interesting thing about this book isn’t that it’s “science writing” in the clean modern pop-science sense. It's much weirder, coming from that late-mid century moment where cosmology still carried metaphysical vertigo. Scientists wrote as though they were standing at the edge of comprehension rather than performing TED-talk certainty. The book moves through the origin of the universe, planetary formation, life, space, scale, evolution, entropy, and the philosophical implications of cosmic observation. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1387\" data-end=\"1706\"\u003eCheap old Granada paperbacks understood abstraction better than most contemporary publishing departments with million-dollar moodboards. The cosmic-image-with-serif-type thing feels simultaneously occult and municipal. Like a public library copy from an alternate Cold War timeline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1387\" data-end=\"1706\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGranada paperback edition from 1980. Moderate edge and corner wear to wraps with creasing and age toning throughout, but binding remains sound and text clean. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44641245659219,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-05-20T123157.405.png?v=1779244329","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/in-the-centre-of-immensities-by-bernard-lovell","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}