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Pecker, Jean-Claude |
Understanding the Heavens |
I10999 |
2001 |
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Pecker, Jean-Claude |
Experimental Astronomy |
I04388 |
1970 |
eBook |
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Appenzeller, Immo |
Remembering Edith Alice M??ller |
I02094 |
1998 |
eBook |
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Pecker, Jean-Claude |
Space Observatories |
I00105 |
1970 |
eBook |
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Pecker, Jean-Claude |
Understanding the heavens: Thirty centuries of astronomical ideas from ancient thinking to modern cosmology |
018226 |
2001 |
Book |
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Jean-Claude Pecker |
Space observatories |
007191 |
1970 |
Book |
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Jean-Claude Pecker |
Experimental astronomy |
007190 |
1970 |
Book |
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| Title | Understanding the Heavens : Thirty Centuries of Astronomical Ideas from Ancient Thinking to Modern Cosmology |
| Author(s) | Pecker, Jean-Claude |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2001. |
| Description | XIII, 597 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Astronomy is the oldest and most fundamental of the natural sciences. From the early beginnings of civilization astronomers have attempted to explain not only what the Universe is and how it works, but also how it started, how it evolved to the present day, and how it will develop in the future. The author, a well-known astronomer himself, describes the evolution of astronomical ideas, briefly discussing most of the instrumental developments. Using numerous figures to elucidate the mechanisms involved, the book starts with the astronomical ideas of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian philosophers, moves on to the Greek period, and then to the golden age of astronomy, i.e. to Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton, and ends with modern theories of cosmology. Written with undergraduate students in mind, this book gives a fascinating survey of astronomical thinking |
| ISBN,Price | 9783662044414 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
3. ASTROPHYSICS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. HISTORY
7. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
8. Popular Science in Astronomy
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| Title | Experimental Astronomy |
| Author(s) | Pecker, Jean-Claude |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1970. |
| Description | X, 105 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Socrates knew all that was known by his contemporaries. But already in the Middle Ages it was becoming difficult for a single man to have a truly encyclopedic view of all human knowledge. It is true that Pico della Mirandola, Pius II, Leonardo da Vinci, and several other great minds were thoroughly in possession of considerable know?? ledge, and knew all that one could know, except no doubt for some techniques. The encyclopedists of the 18th century had to be content with an admirable survey: they could not go into details, and their work is a collective one, the specialized science of each collaborator compensating for the insufficiencies of the others. We know very well that our science of today is a science of specialists. Not only is it impossible for anyone person to assimilate the totality of human knowledge, it is impossible even to know ones own discipline perfectly thoroughly. Each year the presses of science pro?? duce a frightening quantity of printed paper. Even in very limited fields, new journals are created every day, devoted to extremely specialized, often very narrowly defined subjects. It is indeed evident that in a field whose scope extends well beyond astronomical or astrophysical research, it is materially impossible to be informed of everything, even with the richest of libraries at hand |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401033022 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. Observations, Astronomical
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| Title | Remembering Edith Alice M??ller |
| Author(s) | Appenzeller, Immo;Chmielewski, Yves;Pecker, Jean-Claude;de la Reza, Ramiro;Tammann, Gustav;Wayman, Patrick A |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1998. |
| Description | IV, 147 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Edith Alicia M??ller (1918-1995) was the IAU General Secretary from 1976 to 1979, the first woman to have this responsibility. Many friends, students and colleagues, and others who have met Edith at different occasions, give in this book their memories of her. Her fundamental work in solar physics concerned the chemical composition of the Sun, the time variation of its infra-red spectrum, and its thermal structure. Her interests were, however, far broader than that. She was heavily involved in international work for the teaching of astronomy and for the exchange program of young astronomers |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401151733 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. Observations, Astronomical
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