Astronomy category: 2403 books
by My Ebook Publishing House
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Experience the cosmos as never before with UNIVERSE: The Solar System and Beyond
Beginning with a fascinating overview and then organized by planet, this book takes us on a trip across time and space that includes a front-row seat to the explosive birth of the solar system, a journey to (and then...
Dreams of Other Worlds
The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration - Revised and Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Dreams of Other Worlds describes the unmanned space missions that have opened new windows on distant worlds. Spanning four decades of dramatic advances in astronomy and planetary science, this book tells the story of eleven iconic exploratory missions and how they have fundamentally transformed our...
Dying Planet
Mars in Science and the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
For more than a century, Mars has been at the center of debates about humanity’s place in the cosmos. Focusing on perceptions of the red planet in scientific works and science fiction, Dying Planet analyzes the ways Mars has served as a screen onto which humankind has projected both its hopes for...
Extreme Cosmos
A Guided Tour of the Fastest, Brightest, Hottest, Heaviest,Oldest, and Most Amaz ing Aspects of Our Universe
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
**A top astronomer explores the universe through the lens of its most jaw-dropping extremes. **
The universe is all about extremes, and in this engaging and thought-provoking book, astronomer Bryan Gaensler gives a whirlwind tour of the galaxies, with an emphasis on its fastest, hottest, heaviest,...
by Doug West
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Maybe you have never heard of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin; if not, now is your chance to find out about the interesting woman that had a huge impact on the world of science and advanced the cause of women. Her discovery that hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe was a fundamental breakthrough....
by Ball Robert Stawell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
This work enlists the services of men who worked in the field of Astronomy. Ball has chronicled the lives of all great astronomers and provided glimpses of their personal lives as well as their interests and their era. This gives a deep understanding of their work and discoveries.
by Timothy Ferris
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
From the second-century celestial models of Ptolemy to modern-day research institutes and quantum theory, this classic book offers a breathtaking tour of astronomy and the brilliant, eccentric personalities who have shaped it. From the first time mankind had an inkling of the vast space that surrounds...
Inverse Methods
Interdisciplinary Elements of Methodology, Computation, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Over the last few decades inversion concepts have become an integral part of experimental data interpretation in several branches of science. In numerous cases similar inversion-like techniques were developed independently in separate disciplines, sometimes based on different lines of reasoning, but...
Orrery
A Story of Mechanical Solar Systems, Clocks, and English Nobility
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
“Orrery” appeals to almost anyone interested in popular astronomy, astronomical mechanical devices, scientific instruments, the history of clocks - and even the history of aristocratic and prestigious families! Many people these days – not only astronomers – have a good idea of the main components...
The Big Bang Never Happened
A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
A mesmerizing challenge to orthodox cosmology with powerful implications not only for cosmology itself but also for our notions of time, God, and human nature -- with a new Preface addressing the latest developments in the field.
Far-ranging and provocative, The Big Bang Never Happened is more...
The Planet Factory
Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Twenty years ago, the search for planets outside the Solar System was a job restricted to science-fiction writers. Now it's one of the fastest-growing fields in astronomy with thousands of exoplanets discovered to date, and the number is rising fast.
These new-found worlds are more alien than...
by Mauri Valtonen, Joanna Anosova, Konstantin Kholshevnikov
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
This book, written for a general readership, reviews and explains the three-body problem in historical context reaching to latest developments in computational physics and gravitation theory. The three-body problem is one of the oldest problems in science and it is most relevant even in today’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
The search for life in the Universe, once the domain of science fiction, is now a robust research program with a well-defined roadmap, from studying the extremes of life on Earth to exploring the possible niches for life in the Solar System and discovering thousands of planets far beyond it. In addition...
The Lost Constellations
A History of Obsolete, Extinct, or Forgotten Star Lore
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Casual stargazers are familiar with many classical figures and asterisms composed of bright stars (e.g., Orion and the Plough), but this book reveals not just the constellations of today but those of yesteryear. The history of the human identification of constellations among the stars is explored...