Fred hoyle and n c wickramasinghe (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. This is a Near Fine Copy of this book in original blue cloth with gilt title lettering to spine in a Near Fine Dust-Jacket with NO chips or tears along it's outer edges.Not price clipped and there are NO former names or inscriptions present.Bindiong remains firm with NO hinge weakness.A nice clean tight copy 8vo 189pp First Edition 1st Impression [1978].…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Paperback in good condition. Pages are heavily tanned. Cover is clean and in good condition.

Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near very good in near very good, edge worn, scuffed and plastic protected, d/w. Spine slightly cocked and bumped, pages a bit yellowed. Please email for exact postage quote and information on any available discounts.

Hardcover. First American Edition. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.5inches], full gilt-embossed celestial-blue cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. ix, 196, indexed. Illustrated with numerous, charts, graphs &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . In late 1940, Hoyle left Cambridge to go to Portsmouth to work for the Admiralty on radar research, for example devising a method to get the altitude of the incoming aeroplanes. He was also put in charge of countermeasures against the radar guided guns found on the Graf Spee. Britain's radar project employed more personnel than the Manhattan project, and was probably the inspiration for the large British project in The Black Cloud. Two key colleagues in this war work were Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold, and the three had many and deep discussions on cosmology. The radar work paid for a couple of trips to North America, where he took the opportunity to visit astronomers. On one trip to the US he learned about supernovae at Caltech and Mount Palomar and, in Canada, the nuclear physics of plutonium implosion and explosion, noticed some similarity between the two and started thinking about supernova nucleosynthesis. He had an intuition at the time "I will make a name for myself if this works out." Eventually (1954) his prescient and ground breaking paper came out. . In his later years, Hoyle became a staunch critic of theories of abiogenesis to explain the origin of life on Earth. With Chandra Wickramasinghe, Hoyle promoted the hypothesis that the first life on Earth began in space, spreading through the universe via panspermia, and that evolution on Earth is influenced by a steady influx of viruses arriving via comets. His belief that comets had a significant percentage of organic compounds was well ahead of his time, as the dominant views in the 1970s and 1980s were that comets largely consisted of water-ice, and the presence of organic compounds was then highly controversial. In exceptionally good condition In exceptionally good condition. …

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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