The enchantment of Urania : 25 centuries of exploration of the sky / Massimo Capaccioli.
Pubblicazione:
Singapore : World scientific, c2024.
Descrizione fisica:
563 p. ; 23 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. 1. Introduction: The first time 2. With the naked eye: astronomy and cosmology of the ancients 3. An introvert, a reactionary and a visionary: Copernicus, Kepler and Brahe 4. The glass eye: Galilei's telescope and its discoveries 5. The heroic enthusiasts: Tte dawn of the telescopic sky survey 6. The heavenly laboratory: Cassini, Huygens, Bradley and the measures of time and light 7. God said, Let Newton be! The reflecting telescope and light and gravity 8. Beyond the Pillars of Hercules: Herschel and the new planets 9. The Cyclopes: the giant telescopes of Herschel and the Leviathan of Lord Rosse 10. Stop the time: photography and the first all sky surveys 11. Harmony of light: Fraunhofer, Kirchhoff and Huggins 12. The meter and the measure: distances of celestial bodies, from Aristarchus to Miss Leavitt 13. Symphony from the New World: George Hale and the big science 14. Fundamental bricks: two new sciences, relativity and quantum mechanics 15. The eighth wonder: the Palomar giant telescopes and the new ideas 16. The Sun and the other stars: how the stars work, how they live and for how long 17. Pioneers at the time of the Cold War: the crisis of cosmology and the rustle of the Big Bang 18. Observing with closed eyes: the exploration of the universe at radio frequencies 19. From here to eternity: new generation instruments, amazing discoveries and open problems. Acknowledments. Index
