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|title=Gravity, Cracking the Cosmic Code

|author=Nicholas Mee

|publisher=Virtual Image

|date=October 2014

|website=www.nickmee.com.

|summary=An accessible and historical approach beginning with early attempts to understand astronomy leading up to Newton's theory of gravity and its publication in his masterpiece the Principia, the book that launched the modern scientific age.Black Holes and Super string theory together with the studies of Einstein, Hubble and Hawking are related to this fundamental force.

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Dr Mee’s quest begins with raw data used by Thales of Miletus to make an accurate prediction of a solar eclipse as early as 585 BC recorded in an the account of a battle by Herodotus. Thales analysed the highly accurate data provided by the skilled observations of the Babylonians. Early theories of the heavens are explored in detail with puzzles provided to encourage the reader, for example, to grasp the importance of Galileo’s experiments, Kepler’s revolutionary theories and the towering work of Newton. Midway through this engaging account Dante and the State of Denmark have all been touched upon. This book is a determined attempt to counter the ignorance of the public about basic science, famously propounded by C.P.Snow, and to introduce them to the latest theories about black holes, string theory and to convey the beautiful links between gravity and the theory of small particles, like leptons, with the grand structure of galaxies.