Revolutionaries of the cosmos : the astro-physicists / I.S. Glass.
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Oxford university press, 2006.
Descrizione fisica:
xiii, 317 p. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: 1. Introduction 2. Galileo: seeing and believing 3. Isaac Newton: rationalising the universe 4. William Herschel: surveying the heavens 5. William Huggins: celestial chemical analysis 6. George Ellery Hale: providing the tools 7. Arthur Eddington: inside the stars 8. Harlow Shapley: defining our galaxy 9. Edwin Hubble: journeying to the edge. Index
Fernie, J. Donald. Men of astronomy.