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James S. Trefil |
Space time infinity |
026729 |
1985 |
Book |
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| 2 |
Ian Ridpath |
Astronomy: Eyewitness Companions |
026738 |
2006 |
Book |
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Susan Wise Bauer |
Story of science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory |
025984 |
2015 |
Book |
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J. L. E. Dreyer |
History of the planetary systems: From Thales to Kepler |
025951 |
1906 |
Book |
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| 5 |
Thomas L. Heath |
Greek astronomy |
025952 |
1932 |
Book |
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Martin Harwit |
In search of the true universe: The Tools, Shaping, and Cost of Cosmological Thought |
025397 |
2013 |
Book |
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| 7 |
Schilling Govert |
Atlas of astronomical discoveries |
024070 |
2011 |
Book |
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Victor E. Thoren |
Lord of uraniborg: A bibliography of Tycho Brahe |
023838 |
2006 |
Book |
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| 9 |
Roger G. Newton |
From clockwork to crapshoot: A history of physics |
022189 |
2008 |
Book |
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| 10 |
Asger Aaboe |
Episodes from the early history of astronomy |
020480 |
2001 |
Book |
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| Title | Space time infinity |
| Author(s) | James S. Trefil |
| Publication | New York, 1. Pantheon Books
2. Smithsonian Books, 1985. |
| Description | 255p. |
| Abstract Note | Beginning with humankind's earliest views of the cosmos recorded in Egypt, Babylon, and Greece, and evi dence from megalithic sites such as Stonehenge, Trefil quickly traces the rise of Western astronomy to contem porary views of stars, galaxies, and in finity. Issues of cosmology, astrophys ics, and cosmogony are treated lucidly and richly illustrated with hundreds of colored pictures and diagrams. Impor tant unsolved scientific problems are explored, as well as questions such as the existence of extraterrestrial life. Completely up-to-date scientifically, this book tells a story of immense scope. Highly recommended for lay people and a beautiful addition to pub lic libraries. |
| ISBN,Price | 0-394-5484-4 : Rs 1743.00(HB) |
| Classification | 52(091)
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| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY - HISTORY
2. COSMOLOGY - HISTORY
3. SOLAR SYSTEM
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| Item Type | Book |
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| 026729 |
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| Title | Greek astronomy |
| Author(s) | Thomas L. Heath |
| Publication | Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1932. |
| Description | lvii, 192p. |
| Series | (The Library of Greek Thought) |
| Abstract Note | From its beginnings in Babylonian and Egyptian theories, through its flowering into revolutionary ideas such as heliocentricity, astronomy proved a source of constant fascination for the philosophers of antiquity. In ancient Greece, the earliest written evidence of astronomical knowledge appeared in the poems of Homer and Hesiod. In the present work, first published in 1932, Sir Thomas Little Heath (1861â1940) collects some of the most notable essays and discussions of astronomical theory by Greek astronomers and mathematicians, presenting them in English translation for the modern reader. With chronological coverage, Heath's book features a thorough introduction, a doxography of what ancient authors said about the earliest theorists and longer excerpts exploring fundamental ideas. Among the pieces are extracts from Plato's Republic and Ptolemy's work on the impossibility of a moving Earth, alongside material from Aristotle, Euclid, Strabo, Plutarch and others. |
| ISBN,Price | 9781108062800 : UKP 18.99(PB) |
| Classification | 52(945)
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| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY - GREEK
2. ASTRONOMY - HISTORY
3. DOXOGRAPHY - GREEK ASTRONOMY
4. GREEK ASTRONOMY - DOXOGRAPHY
5. PLATO - PHILOSOPHY
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| Title | In search of the true universe: The Tools, Shaping, and Cost of Cosmological Thought |
| Author(s) | Martin Harwit |
| Publication | Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013. |
| Description | xvii, 393p. |
| Abstract Note | Astrophysicist and scholar Martin Harwit examines how our understanding of the Cosmos advanced rapidly during the twentieth century and identifies the factors contributing to this progress. Astronomy, whose tools were largely imported from physics and engineering, benefited mid-century from the U.S. policy of coupling basic research with practical national priorities. This strategy, initially developed for military and industrial purposes, provided astronomy with powerful tools yielding access â at virtually no cost â to radio, infrared, X-ray, and gamma-ray observations. Today, astronomers are investigating the new frontiers of dark matter and dark energy, critical to understanding the Cosmos but of indeterminate socio-economic promise. Harwit addresses these current challenges in view of competing national priorities and proposes alternative new approaches in search of the true Universe. This is an engaging read for astrophysicists, policy makers, historians, and sociologists of science looking to learn and apply lessons from the past in gaining deeper cosmological insight. |
| ISBN,Price | 9781107044067 : US $50.00(HB) |
| Classification | 52
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| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY - HISTORY
2. ASTRONOMY - HISTORY - 20TH CENTURY
3. ASTRONOMY - SOCIETY
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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| Title | Atlas of astronomical discoveries |
| Author(s) | Schilling Govert |
| Publication | New York, Springer, 2011. |
| Description | 234p. |
| Abstract Note | Offers a unique combination of informative text, magnificent illustrations and stylish design
Examines the 100 most important discoveries since the invention of the telescope.
Features spectacular photographs, taken with the largest telescopes on Earth and in space, that portray distant corners of the universe.
Four hundred years ago in Middelburg, in the Netherlands, the telescope was invented. The invention unleashed a revolution in the exploration of the universe. Galileo Galilei discovered mountains on the Moon, spots on the Sun, and moons around Jupiter. Christiaan Huygens saw details on Mars and rings around Saturn. William Herschel discovered a new planet and mapped binary stars and nebulae. Other astronomers determined the distances to stars, unraveled the structure of the Milky Way, and discovered the expansion of the universe. And, as telescopes became bigger and more powerful, astronomers delved deeper into the mysteries of the cosmos. In his Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries, astronomy journalist Govert Schilling tells the story of 400 years of telescopic astronomy. He looks at the 100 most important discoveries since the invention of the telescope.
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| ISBN,Price | 9781441978103 : Euro 39.95(HB) |
| Classification | 52(084)
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| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY - HISTORY
2. ATLAS
3. TELESCOPIC ASTRONOMY
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| 024070 |
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| Title | Episodes from the early history of astronomy |
| Author(s) | Asger Aaboe |
| Publication | New York, Springer, 2001. |
| Description | xv,172p. |
| Contents Note | In this book, Asger Aaboe selects a few significant "episodes" from early astronomy and treats them in details, rather than attempting a general survey. However, first he gives a descriptive account of what one should see when one looks at the sky with the naked eye, unbiased by received knowledge, and with curiosity and wit. He then turns to the arithmetical astronomy of ancient Mesopotamia, where astronomy first became an exact science. Next are treated Greek geometrical devices accounting for planetary motion, culminating in Ptolemy's planetary models in his Almagest. Aaboe concludes with an elementary discussion of Kepler motion and shows that Ptolemy's models are excellent approximations to how planets in fact move relative to the earth. |
| ISBN,Price | 0387951369 : Euro 56.95 |
| Classification | 52(091)
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| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY - HISTORY
2. ASTRONOMY - HISTORY - BIBLIOGRAPHY
3. BABYLONIAN ARITHMETICAL ASTRONOMY
4. EARLY ASTRONOMY
5. GREEK GEOMETRICAL PLANETARY MODELS
6. KEPLER MOTION
7. Ptolemy's cosmology
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