Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Sette brevi lezioni di fisica) is a short book by the Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli. Originally published in Italian in 2014, by 2021 the book has been translated into 52 languages. More than a million copies have been sold, of which more than 400,000 in Italy.

Overview
The book condenses the revelations of post-Newtonian physics – from Einstein's theory of relativity to quantum mechanics – into seven brief, accessible lessons. These were originally serialised in an Italian newspaper. Rovelli uses a literary approach, for instance, highlighting a year Einstein spent apparently aimlessly with the comment that those who don't waste time, won't get anywhere.

The chapters are:


 * 1) The Most Beautiful of Theories
 * 2) The Quanta
 * 3) The Architecture of the Cosmos
 * 4) Particles
 * 5) Grains of Space
 * 6) Probability, Time and the Heat of Black Holes
 * 7) Ourselves

Critical reception
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics  was generally well-received. According to Book Marks, the book received "positive" reviews based on 7 critic reviews with 2 being "rave" and 3 being "positive" and 1 being "mixed" and 1 being "pan".