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1. Stephen Hawking for Beginners by J. McEvoy, Icon [1]

2. The Consumer’s Good Chemical Guide by John Emsley, W. H. Freeman [3]

3. Schrödinger’s Kittens by John Gribbin, Weidenfeld & Nicolson [-]

4. Fuzzy Thinking by B. Kosko, Collins [7]

5. The Collapse of Chaos by Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart, Penguin [-]

6. Nature’s Imagination by John Cornwell, Oxford [-]

7. Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman by Richard Feynman, Hutchison [-]

8. Newton’s Principia for the Common Reader by S. Chandrasekhar, Oxford [-]

9. About Time by Paul Davies, Viking [4]

10. Black Holes and Baby Universes by Stephen Hawking, Bantam [5]

It’s remarkable even in the physical sciences that a heavyweight title like Newton’s Principia for the Common Reader should appear among the bestsellers -and outsell the popular Paul Davies. In this mighty, but flawed, work Chandrasekhar tackles Newton’s theories. Sad to say, it is Chandra’s last work – he died in August in Chicago.

Next week. Australia’s top ten.