Discovering the Cosmos - Rilegato

Bless, Robert C.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0935702679 ISBN 13: 9780935702675

Casa editrice: Univ Science Books, 1995

Riassunto

This text has two objectives: to describe the leading ideas and concepts of modern astronomy; and to indicate how astronomy in particular and physical science in general developed, what its methods are, its goals and its limitations. Though it is not a history of astronomy, the book has a much stronger emphasis on history than is usually the case in order to provide the context in which major discoveries were made and attitudes shaped, as well as to indicate how early astronomy developed. The book is based on Bob Bless's liberal arts course at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. It is suitable for use in a one-semester non-majors introduction to astronomy.

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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