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Astronomy in Depthby: Gerald North
Astronomy in Depth fills the need for a textbook that covers pre-university level Astronomy courses (in the UK, the GCSE syllabuses) and provides numerical examples to help students. It is also written as a serious foundation in Astronomy for amateurs who want to take a more detailed approach... |
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Introductory Astronomyby: Keith Holliday
Written to provide students with a non-trivial introduction to the subject, this book examines the problems astronomers face on Emarth. It moves on to explore the solar system, the stars and beyond |
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Yearbook of Astronomy: 2006
This fully updated 2006 edition features a range of specially commissioned articles by some of the world's top astronomers, an authoritative collection of charts and astronomical data, and a month-by-month guide to everything for the coming year: planets, eclipses, comets, meteors, nebulae and... |
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Astronomy Through the Ages: The Story of the Human Attempt to Understand the Universeby: Robert Wilson
From an historical perspective, this text presents an entirely non- mathematical introduction to astronomy from the first endeavours of the ancients to the current developments in research enabled by cutting edge technological advances. Free of mathematics and complex graphs, the book... |
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Teach Yourself Astronomy
Do you want a practical guide to astronomy? Would you like to be able to observe and understand the sky at night? Teach Yourself Astronomy is a comprehensive and straightforward guide to the 'science of the sky'. Assuming no prior knowledge, this book will ensure you grasp the basics of this... |
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The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern...by: Stuart Clark
In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics. Around the world, telegraph systems crashed, machines burst into flames, and electric shocks rendered operators unconscious.... |
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Astronomy
This is one of a series of books that look at the excitement of scientific discovery, vividly bringing to life major breakthroughs in all the fields of science through the eyes of the great scientists. Astronomy looks at how scientists from Aristotle to Stephen Hawking have altered our view of... |
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Astronomy
With over 400 superb illustrations, diagram and photographs, plus over 100 panels packed with facts and dates, this is the ultimate astronomy reference book. A factfinder to extend the knowledge and understanding of everyone |
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The Guinness Book of Astronomy
Intended for amateur enthusiasts and professional astronomers alike, this reference book reflects the many developments in the world of astronomy since the fourth edition was published. These include the comet impact on Jupiter, powerful telescopes such as the improved Hubble Space Telescope,... |
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The History of Astronomyby: Michael Hoskin
Astronomy, perhaps the first of the sciences, was already well developed by the time of Christ. Seventeen centuries later, after Newton showed that the movements of the planets could be explained in terms of gravitation, it became the paradigm for the mathematical sciences. In the nineteenth... |
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