How long does it take to read Coming of Age in the Milky Way?
Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris takes about 9 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 5 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1988. 495 pages, about 136,125 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Traces the evolution of humanity's need to understand space and time from late-prehistoric musings to the "supersymmetry" theories of space-time advanced as the second millennium comes to a close.
Subjects: Science, History, Space and time, Cosmology, Melkweg (sterrenkunde), Tijdrekening
