How long does it take to read A Brief History of Time?
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking takes about 4 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1988. 242 pages, about 66,550 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 121 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Stephen Hawking's ‘A Brief History of Time* has become an international publishing phenomenon. Translated into thirty languages, it has sold over ten million copies worldwide and lives on as a science book that continues to captivate and inspire new readers each year. When it was first published in 1988 the ideas discussed in it were at the cutting edge of what was then known about the universe. In the intervening twenty years there have been extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and macro-cosmic world. Indeed, during that time cosmology and the theoretical sciences have entered a new golden age . Professor Hawking is one of the major scientists and thinkers to have contributed to this renaissance.
Subjects: Cosmologie, Temps (durée), Espace-temps, Vulgarisation scientifique, Univers, Espace extraterrestre
