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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The second edition of Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars (2004) is the definitive book for those who are serious about this fascinating aspect of astronomy. It deals with equipment (you can start modestly with commercial or even home-made instruments), observing methods using binoculars upwards...
The Casual Sky Observer's Guide
Stargazing with Binoculars and Small Telescopes
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
The Casual Sky Observer's Pocket Guide offers an observing program for occasional amateur observers looking for some quick, fun astronomy adventures under the stars. In the real world, where time for observing is limited, the weather is seldom perfect, and expensive equipment is not an option,...
by David Seargent
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015
After addressing strange cosmological hypotheses in Weird Universe, David Seargent tackles the no-less bizarre theories closer to home. Alternate views on the Solar System's formation, comet composition, and the evolution of life on Earth are only some of the topics he addresses in this new work. Although...
by Michael Leitner
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2001 in the subject Physics - Astronomy, grade: sehr gut, University of Graz (Institute for Geophysics and Astronomy), language: English, abstract: In this thesis the topic of substructure analysis of Jovian S-bursts is discussed. As Jovian S-bursts are...
The Light, The Stones and The Sacred
Proceedings of the XVth Italian Society of Archaeoastronomy Congress
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
This book addresses a variety of topics within the growing discipline of Archaeoastronomy, focusing especially on Archaeoastronomy in Sicily and the Mediterranean and Cultural Astronomy. A further priority is discussion of the astronomical and statistical methods used today to ascertain the degree...
by Lloyd Motz, Jefferson Hane Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Taking the Back off the Watch
A Personal Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Thomas Gold (1920-2004) had a curious mind that liked to solve problems. He was one of the most remarkable astrophysicists in the second half of the twentieth century, and he attracted controversy throughout his career. Based on a full-length autobiography left behind by Thomas Gold, this book was...
In Search of William Gascoigne
Seventeenth Century Astronomer
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
William Gascoigne (c.1612-44) was the inventor of the telescopic sight and micrometer (instruments crucial to the advance of astronomy). His name is now known to historians of science around the world. For some considerable time after his tragic death at the age of 32 in the English Civil War, however,...
The Invisible Sky
Rosat and the Age of X-Ray Astronomy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
ROSAT, the ROentgen SATellite launched in 1990, has revealed an entirely new aspect of the night sky - that of objects emitting X-rays rather than the rays of light visible to the human eye. This lavishly illustrated book is the first to describe one of the most remarkable instruments in modern astronomy....
Mt Stromlo Observatory
From Bush Observatory to the Nobel Prize
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This book tells the story of the Mt Stromlo Observatory in Canberra which began with W.G. Duffield's idealism and vision in 1905. The Observatory began life as a government department, later becoming an optical munitions factory producing gun sights and telescopes during the Second World War, before...
by P.S.J. (Peet) Schutte
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
How To Swindle by Faking Science then you are going read what is the mother of all the conspiracies in science, which is about how science applies mind control by processing thought control. This is the truth! Science practicing physics about Astronomy, Cosmology and everything to do with Stars, the...
Thinkerings
Ponderings and Mental Experiments That Challenge Current Scientific Thinking and Other Good Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
This book covers a wide variety of subjects, ranging from a New World Calendar to Einstein's Theories of Relativity. It describes interesting aspects of Astronomy, History, Philosophy and Life, using simple terms that do no require prior knowledge of these matters.
Several natural phenomena...
by Richard Taibi
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This fascinating portrait of an amateur astronomy movement tells the story of how Charles Olivier recruited a hard-working cadre of citizen scientists to rehabilitate the study of meteors. By 1936, Olivier and members of his American Meteor Society had succeeded in disproving an erroneous idea about...
by British Library
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
The official companion book to the British Library exhibition and the ultimate gift for Harry Potter fans!
As the British Library unveils a very special new exhibition in the UK, Harry Potter: A History of Magic, readers everywhere are invited on an enchanting journey through the Hogwarts curriculum,...