View from a Height is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov.

It was the second of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, written between 1959 and 1962.

The book received a review in Science Magazine.

[2] The collection includes the essay "By Jove!

", the source of the Asimov misquote describing the Solar System (besides the Sun) as "Jupiter plus debris".