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Titolo:
Archives of the universe : a treasury of astronomy's historic works of discovery / edited and with introductions by Marcia Bartusiak.
Pubblicazione:
New York : Pantheon books, c2004.
Descrizione fisica:
XVII, 695 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Pt. 1. The ancient sky: 1. Mayan Venus tables 2. Proof that the Earth is a sphere 3. Celestial surveying 4. Measuring the Earth's circumference 5. Precession of the equinoxes 6. Ptolemy's Almagest. Pt. 2. Revolutions: 7. Copernicus and the Sun-centered universe 8. Tycho Brahe and the changing heavens 9. Johannes Kepler and planetary motion 10. Galileo initiates the telescopic era 11. Newton's universal law of gravity 12. Halley's comet 13. Binary stars. Pt. 3. Taking measure: 14. The speed of light 15. The solar system's origin 16. Discovery of Uranus 17. Stars moving and changing 18. The first asteroid 19. Distance to a star 20. Discovery of Neptune 21. The shape of the Milk Way 22. Spiraling nebulae. Pt. 4. Touching the heavens: 23. Spectral lines 24. Deciphering the solar spectrum 25. Gaseous nebulae 26. Doppler shifts and spectroscopic binaries 27. Classification of the stars 28. Giant stars and dwarf stars 29. Hydrogen: the prime element 30. Stellar mass, luminosity and stability 31. Sunspot cycle, Sun/Earth connection and helium 32. Origin of meteors and shooting stars 33. Cosmic rays 34. Discovery of Pluto. Pt. 5. Einsteinian cosmos: 35. Special relativity and [mathematical expression] 36. General relativity and the solar eclipse test 37. Relativistic models of the universe 38. Big Bang versus steady state 39. White dwarf stars 40. Beyond the white dwarf 41. Supernovae and neutron stars 42. Black holes 43. Source of stellar power 44. Creating elements in the Big Bang 45. Cosmic microwave background predicted 46. Creating elements in the stars 47. A star's life cycle 48. Cepheids: the cosmic standard candles 49. Sun's place in the Milky Way 50. Dark nebulae and interstellar matter 51. Discovery of other galaxies 52. Expansion of the universe 53. Stellar populations and resizing the universe 54. Mapping the Milky Way's spiral arms 55. Source and composition of comets. Pt. 7. New Eyes, new universe: 56. Radio astronomy 57. Interstellar hydrogen 58. Molecules in space 59. Van Allen radiation belts 60. Geology of Mars 61. Extrasolar X-ray sources 62. Quasars 63. Evidence for the Big Bang 64. Pulsar 65. The infrared sky and the galactic center 66. Neutrino astronomy 67. Gamma-ray bursts 68. Binary pulsar and gravity waves. Pt. 8. Accelerating outward: 69. Dark matter 70. Gravitational lensing 71. Inflation 72. The bubbly universe 73. Galaxy evolution and the hubble deep field 74. Extrasolar planets 75. The accelerating universe. Notes. Bibliography. Acnowledgments. Index
