The Mysterious Universe: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Mysterious Universe, credited to James Jeans, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Mysterious Universe by James Jeans. Read in English by Peter Tucker. One of the earliest of the popular science book genre, it is a philosophical summary of the new physics of the era by a leading British physicist. Keeping technical references to a bare minimum, Jeans argues that physics has entered a new age in which mathematical representation has supplanted mechanical models. This recording was originally published on Legamus.eu and was later released on Librivox when US copyright permitted. - Summary by Peter Tucker

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Mysterious Universe
• Author credits: James Jeans
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 4:03:19

Catalogue topics

• science
• physics
• universe
• cosmology

Track guide

1. 00 - Foreword — 4:04
2. 01 - Section 1 — 20:36
3. 02 - Section 2 — 49:13
4. 03 - Section 3 — 52:14
5. 04 - Section 4 — 51:29
6. 05 - Section 5 — 1:05:43

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