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Stars in Their Eyes([ABCDEF]+.)(.*?)The Scientific American Book of the Cosmos edited by David Levy,Macmillan，￡20,ISBN 0333782933([ABCDEF]+.)(.*?)Previous generations of scientists would have killed to know what we know. For the first time in history,we have a pretty good idea of the material content of the Universe,our position within it and how the whole thing came into being.([ABCDEF]+.)(.*?)In these times of exploding knowledge there is a definite need to take stock and assemble what we know in a palatable（受欢迎的）form.______ (46)([ABCDEF]+.)(.*?)The essays in The Scientfic American Book of the Cosmos have been selected by David Levy, co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9,which in 1994 struck Jupiter with the violence of several full-scale nuclear wars.______(47)This is certainly a great collection of essays,but it is not , as the book promises , a seamless（完美的，无缝隙的）synthesis of our current knowledge.([ABCDEF]+.)(.*?)Nobody can fault the range of articles Levy has included.There are essays on the planets, moons and assorted debris（碎片）in the Solar System , and on our Galaxy , the Milky Way. ______(48)([ABCDEF]+.)(.*?)The contributors,too,are stars in their own fields.Not many books can boast chapters writ-ten by such giants as Erwin Schrodinger and Francis Crick.My personal favorites are a piercingly clear essay by Albert Einstein on general relativity and an article by Alan Guth and Paul Steinhardt on the inflationary（膨胀的）Universe.([ABCDEF]+.)(.*?)So much for the book's content. But Levy has not succeeded in providing an accurate synthe-sis of our current knowledge of the cosmos,which the book jacket promises.Gathering together previously published articles inevitably leaves subject gaps,missing explanations and so on. ______(49)But there isn't one.In fact,surprisingly for a book so densely packed with infor-mation,there is no index.([ABCDEF]+.)(.*?)Collecting essays in this way is clearly a good publishing wheeze（巧妙的主意）.But this approach shortchanges the public,who would be better served by an account moulded into a seamless whole.______(50)However,for the next edition,please,please can we have an index?

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A: Tegmark fears he may hold the record for the longest time taken to read one book.
B: In a more positive vein,this is a wonderful collection of essays to dip in and out of if you already have a good overview（概述）of current cosmic understanding.
C: Levy is an active astronomer and an accomplished writer,so you'd expect him to provide a broad and accurate picture of our current understanding of the cosmos.
D: Scientific American has attempted to cater to this need by bringing together essays that have appeared in the magazine.
E: To some extent , these could have been plugged with a glossary（词表）of terms.
F: Also included are contributions on the world of subatomic particles,the origin of life on the Earth and the possibility of its existence elsewhere.