Discovering the Cosmos - Rilegato

Bless, Robert C.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0935702679 ISBN 13: 9780935702675

Casa editrice: Univ Science Books, 1995

Riassunto

Based on the author's one-semester survey course in astronomy for nonscience students, this text describes the leading ideas and concepts of modern astronomy, and indicates how astronomy developed and what its methods, goals and limitations are. Emphasis is given to the early development of astronomy, and to nonmathematical physical explanations. CiP shows the title as Introductory Astronomy . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Contenuti

Introduction
Cosmology
The Beginnings Through Newton
The Naked Sky
The Origins of Astronomy
Early Greek Astronomy
Quantitative Greek Astronomy
The Medieval Interlude
The New Astronomy
The Newtonian Synthesis
The Life and Death of Stars
Radiation and Atoms
Telescopes
Reading Stellar Spectra
The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
Stellar Evolution: Physical Ideas
The Interstellar Medium
Stellar Evolution: The Early Phases
Stellar Evolution: The Late Phases
Cosmology
Herschel to the Present
The Discovery of Galaxies
The Universe of Galaxies
The Cosmological Clues
Violent Events in Galaxies
Models of the Universe
The Evolution of Matter
Worlds Beyond the Earth
Planetary Preliminaries
Solar System Planetology
Life Elsewhere
Appendices
Index

Product Description

714p plus appendix, grey illustrated cloth, large and heavy book, a fresh and tight copy, illustrated throughout, very good indeed

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ Science Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0935702679
• ISBN 13: 9780935702675
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 700
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile