Publisher's description: In the spring of 1543 as the celebrated astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus, lay on his death bed, his fellow clerics brought him a long-awaited package: the final printed pages of the book he had worked on for many years: De revolutionibus (On the Revolutio…
This science narrative utilizes the most recent astronomical research and data that exists on supernovas to detail their role in the life of man and the evolution of the universe.
Discusses the relevance of mathematics to most aspects of life, and directly relates ideas from math to problem solving in unusual places, such as whether there is life on Mars, and the Unabomber case.
"In this masterly synthesis Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton"--Back cover. An extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the univer…
Ours is an ocean world. The Earth's surface is dominated by water. It is most likely that life on our planet originated in the oceans, and for millions of years was nurtured there. And it was water that allowed the development of that powerful mechanism of heat exchange and surf…
Ours is an ocean world. The Earth's surface is dominated by water. It is most likely that life on our planet originated in the oceans, and for millions of years was nurtured there. And it was water that allowed the development of that powerful mechanism of heat exchange and surf…
A veteran popularizer of science, Ferguson traces how people in western history have attempted to measure space from the ancient Greeks to modern physicists and astronomers. She begins with Eratosthenes' accurate measurement of the circumference of the Earth in the third century…
Theories about the formation and future of the universe including formation of galaxies, and the life of a star.
This book "tells the rich scientific story of galaxy evolution and observation – discoveries of ‘spiral nebulae’, the nature of galaxies and the current ‘World Model’. Astronomer James Geach takes us on a tour of what is currently known and unknown, discussing why the ancient sc…
