Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
by William Haloupek
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
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As you get to know your stellar neighborhood, you will find some bizarre and fascinating stars, planets and other strange things. Each one has its own personality, and we are starting to learn more about them, individually.
One of the first things you will notice is that more...
Alpha and Omega
The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Humankind has grappled for millennia with the fundamental questions of the origin and end of the universe--it was a focus of ancient religions and myths and of the inquiries of Aristotle, Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton. Today we are at the brink of discoveries that should soon reveal the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
This fascinating 1968 report describes the results of a study of a semi-permanent lunar surface observatory, called Moonlab. Many unusual aspects of a moonbase are explored, including a futuristic take on astronauts for the mission: "Another more remote possibility is that the people pool will...
by Jacob Dunningham, Vlatko Vedral
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
This book is a revised and updated version of Introductory Quantum Physics and Relativity. Based on lectures given as part of the undergraduate degree programme at the University of Leeds, it has been extended in line with recent developments in the field. The book contains all the material required...
Understanding the Universe
An Inquiry Approach to Astronomy and the Nature of Scientific Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
A student-active introduction to astronomy, emphasizing inquiry learning so students will clearly understand our universe and the scientific method. Within-text and end-of-chapter questions check understanding of concepts and require the student to think critically through astronomy-based problems....
by Paul Lurquin
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2003
The Origins of Life and the Universe is the culmination of a university science professor's search for understanding and is based on his experiences teaching the fundamental issues of physics, chemistry, and biology in the classroom. What is life? Where did it come from? How can understanding the...
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe
The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The Universe May Be a Mystery,
But It's No Secret
Michael Schneider leads us on a spectacular, lavishly illustrated journey along the numbers one through ten to explore the mathematical principles made visible in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, and the human body, expressed in the symbolic...
by Olive Whicher
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1975
The Significance of Counter-Euclidean Geometry for an Understanding of Living Nature. At a time in history when contemporary social and economic thinking has been dominated by the idea of an expanding economy, scientific thinking has taken a similar directionespecially as regards theories of an expanding...
The Edge of the Sky
All You Need to Know About the All-There-Is
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the origins of the universe to its ultimate destiny, The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the most important discoveries and mysteries in modern cosmology-with a twist. The book's lexicon is limited to the thousand most common...
Archives of the Universe
100 Discoveries That Transformed Our Understanding of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
An unparalleled history of astronomy presented in the words of the scientists who made the discoveries. Here are the writings of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Halley, Hubble, and Einstein, as well as that of dozens of others who have significantly contributed to our picture of the universe.
From...
by Nobody!
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
No area of modern science deserves the "Nobody Knows!" treatment more than the cosmological triumvirate of string theory, M-theory and quantum gravity--controversial, modern big bang theories that have dominated physics for over a generation now. These are scientific theories where everybody agrees...
Universis
Big Bangs and Universal Beings
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
The universe revealed like never before. Science speculates about the existence of a Great Unified Theory that joins everything together. Now research journalist and author Patrick Cusick has completed this work of non-fiction that vividly connects cosmology and the quantum sub-atomic world with human...
Origin of Planets
A Theory of Evolution of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
This book is a new theory of the evolution of Planets. The author seeks to solve the evolution /creation argument by demonstrating how they both have respective merit. The author takes the reader along a fascinating journey though ancient teachings, symbolism, religion, science and personal experience...
Exoplanet Atmospheres
Physical Processes
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Over the past twenty years, astronomers have identified hundreds of extrasolar planets--planets orbiting stars other than the sun. Recent research in this burgeoning field has made it possible to observe and measure the atmospheres of these exoplanets. This is the first textbook to describe the basic...