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Capaccioli, Massimo |
Red Moon |
I13030 |
2024 |
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Bannikova, Elena |
Foundations of Celestial Mechanics |
I12357 |
2022 |
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Capaccioli, Massimo |
Arminio Nobile e la misura del cielo |
I07933 |
2012 |
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| Title | Red Moon : The Soviet Conquest of Space |
| Author(s) | Capaccioli, Massimo |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. |
| Description | XI, 202 p. 3 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The book is about the ???space race???, starting from the earliest steps of astronautics to the Moon landings of Armstrong and Aldrin. The conquest of space began as a by-product of an exquisitely military project, the rapid, and efficient delivery of explosives, conventional and then nuclear, over great distances into enemy territory. It happened at the turn of World War II, first with the V2s, the Wunderwaffen that von Braun had created for his F??hrer, and, after the surrender of Germany and Japan, with the intercontinental ballistic missiles that the Russians and Americans built to serve as cabs for atomic bombs. Restrained by the fear of nuclear holocaust, the two great powers that had momentarily divided the government of the world turned the risky muscular confrontation into an unusual race to climb the sky: a stage race with a conventional finish line marked by the human landing on the Moon. Under the constant guidance of Sergei Korolev, the mysterious ???chief designer???, the Soviets got off to a surprise start and stayed in the lead until almost the end, with the Sputniks, the orbital flights of Gagarin and Tereshkova, the first spacewalk, and the unmanned soft landings on the Moon and Venus, only to be caught up and overtaken by the Americans at the very edge. An adventure that lasted a total of twelve years, marked by brilliant and courageous men, by astute and far-sighted politicians, by patriotism and ambition, and, as always, regulated by luck, which profoundly affected our world and the design of its future |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031547607 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONAUTICS
2. Astronomers
3. Biographies of Physicists and Astronomers
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. History of Physics and Astronomy
7. OUTER SPACE
8. Physicists
9. PHYSICS
10. Space Exploration and Astronautics
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| Title | Foundations of Celestial Mechanics |
| Author(s) | Bannikova, Elena;Capaccioli, Massimo |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer International Publishing, 2022. |
| Description | XX, 392 p. 115 illus., 96 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book provides an introduction to classical celestial mechanics. It is based on lectures delivered by the authors over many years at both Padua University (MC) and V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (EB). The book aims to provide a mathematical description of the gravitational interaction of celestial bodies. The approach to the problem is purely formal. It allows the authors to write equations of motion and solve them to the greatest degree possible, either exactly or by approximate techniques, when there is no other way. The results obtained provide predictions that can be compared with the observations. Five chapters are supplemented by appendices that review certain mathematical tools, deepen some questions (so as not to interrupt the logic of the mainframe with heavy technicalities), give some examples, and provide an overview of special functions useful here, as well as in many other fields of physics. The authors also present the original investigation of torus potential. This book is aimed at senior undergraduate students of physics or astrophysics, as well as graduate students undertaking a master???s degree or Ph.D |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031045769 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Applications of Mathematics
2. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
3. Astronomy???Observations
4. Classical and Quantum Gravity
5. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
6. EBOOK
7. EBOOK - SPRINGER
8. GENERAL RELATIVITY
9. GENERAL RELATIVITY (PHYSICS)
10. GRAVITATION
11. GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS
12. MATHEMATICS
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| Title | Arminio Nobile e la misura del cielo : ovvero Le disavventure di un astronomo napoletano |
| Author(s) | Capaccioli, Massimo;Galano, Silvia |
| Publication | Milano, Springer Milan, 2012. |
| Description | XIII, 208 pagg : online resource |
| Abstract Note | La scienza ?? un???esaltante avventura che ?? costume raccontare attraverso le gesta dei grandi. Esiste per?? un???altra storia, altrettanto avvincente ma con poca voce, scritta dai tanti gregari e potenziali campioni cui la sorte, spesso nemmeno troppo cieca, ha negato la gloria. Questo libro parla di uno di loro e del suo piccolo mondo sulla collina di Capodimonte, a Napoli. ?? la parabola di Arminio Nobile ??? personaggio notevole eppure poco noto dell???astronomia italiana ??? svolta sulla scena della nascente astrofisica, in una stagione di grandi transizioni per il Mezzogiorno. Arminio, che era figlio di Giuseppina Guacci, figura di spicco della cultura pre-risorgimentale, e di un valente astronomo della Specola di Capodimonte, scelse di votarsi allo studio del cielo. Osservatore instancabile, appassionato e genialoide, aveva le carte in regola e le motivazioni per ???sfondare???, ma la fortuna non gli arrise: pi?? volte si beff?? di lui, spingendolo su vicoli ciechi che la sua testardaggine gli imped?? di abbandonare. Cos??, quando la grande occasione gli si par?? davanti, la riconobbe ma non seppe coglierla appieno, morendo ???disperato??? come il pucciniano amante di Tosca |
| ISBN,Price | 9788847026407 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. GEOPHYSICS
6. Geophysics/Geodesy
7. HISTORY
8. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
9. Observations, Astronomical
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