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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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

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