This book provides a critical edition and an English translation of the chapter on spheres (goldhyya) from Nitynandas Sarvasiddhntarja, a Sanskrit astronomical text written in seventeenth-century Mughal India. Suitable for those studying and interes...Daugiau...
This book introduces the reader to the fascinating and sometimes bizarre world of space rocks using a simple, clear layman-friendly style. It explains why they are so special and describes their main characteristics....Daugiau...
Offering practical advice on a range of wavelengths and tools, this highly accessible, self-contained book presents a broad overview of astronomical instrumentation, techniques, and tools....Daugiau...
This book offers a first-of-its-kind roadmap for thinking about complex encounters of religion and outer space. A multidisciplinary group of scholarly experts takes up some of the most intriguing scientific, spiritual, trade/commercial, and even mil...Daugiau...
This fully updated second edition of Minding the Heavens: The Story of Our Discovery of the Milky Way explores how we learned that we live in a galaxy, in a universe of composed of galaxies and unseen, mysterious dark matter....Daugiau...
Filled with data about the Earth, Moon, the planets, the stars, our Galaxy, and the myriad galaxies in deep space, this invaluable resource reveals the latest scientific discoveries about black holes, quasars, and the origins of the Universe. It inc...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Jan-2013, Leidėjas: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814417433)
Concentrates on the Sun, Moon, the five bright planets, and on the 23 brightest stars, which are visible from just about anywhere. This book concludes with bright ephemeral phenomena: meteors, comets, and exploding stars....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Jan-2013, Leidėjas: Imperial College Press, ISBN-13: 9781848169357)
The three greatest scientific mysteries, as yet poorly understood, are the origin of the universe, the origin of life and the development of consciousness. This book follows a narrow scientific pathway from the Big Bang to mankind, and depicts the c...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-Sep-2012, Leidėjas: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814295550)
What is the origin of the universe? Are we alone in the Universe? This book explores these two interesting scientific-philosophical themes with a broad range of studies, including astronomy, cosmology, chemistry, biology, geology and planet science....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Sep-2010, Leidėjas: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814307925)
A review of popular astronomy books written from 1833 to 1944. It examines these important works by acknowledged authorities in the field to see how they have stood the test of time. Where the luminaries have failed, it looks for clues that the laym...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Mar-2007, Leidėjas: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789812708304)
Describes the story of our world, formation of the first galaxies and stars formed from great clouds containing the primordial elements made in the first few minutes; birth of stars, their lives and deaths in fiery supernova explosions; formation of...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 10-Jun-2004, Leidėjas: Imperial College Press, ISBN-13: 9781860945212)
In a brilliant flash about fourteen billion years ago, time and matter were born in a single instant of creation. An immensely hot and dense universe began its rapid expansion everywhere, creating space where there was no space and time where there...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Aug-2003, Leidėjas: Institute of Physics Publishing, ISBN-13: 9780429092947)
To understand the history, accomplishments, failures, and meanings of astronomy requires a knowledge of what has been said about astronomy by philosophers, novelists, playwrights, poets, scientists, and laymen. This work serves as a guide to what ha...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Jul-2002, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198508625)
Addresses a scientific puzzle that has perplexed philosophers, mathematicians, physicists, and psychologists - why do the moon and sun appear so much larger on the horizon than when high up in the sky? This book explores the theories of a mystery th...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-May-1999, Leidėjas: Institute of Physics Publishing, ISBN-13: 9780203736258)
Contains 50 full color photographs of the entire night sky of the northern and southern hemispheres. This book features each plate that is accompanied by a star map of the identical area, which identifies the main stars of the constituent constellat...Daugiau...
