Discovering the Cosmos

Name: Discovering the Cosmos
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ISBN: 9780935702675

ISBN-10: 0935702679

ISBN-13: 9780935702675

Edition: 1996

Authors: Robert C. Bless, John Waller, Judy Waller

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This book has two objectives: one to describe the leading ideas and concepts of modern astronomy and two, to indicate how astronomy in particular and physical science in general developed, what its methods are, its goals and limitations.

Book details

List price: $82.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University Science Books
Publication date: 8/1/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 700
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.542
Language: English

John Waller is a research fellow at University College London's Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine. He is the author of Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery.



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Introduction



Cosmology: The Beginnings Through Newton



The Naked-Eye 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: Birthplace of the Stars



Stellar Evolution: The Early Phases



Stellar Evolution: The Late Phases



Cosmology: From 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