The New Astronomy: Opening the Electromagnetic Window and Expanding our View of Planet Earth A Meeting to Honor Woody Sullivan on his 60th Birthday /

This unique work celebrates the 60th birthday of Professor Woodruff Sullivan III (University of Washington, Seattle). The 'Woodfest' conference attracted some of the world's leading astrobiologists and historians of astronomy, so it is no surprise this book provides a collection of ke...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Orchiston, Wayne (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
Edición:1st ed. 2005.
Colección:Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 334
Temas:
Astronomy-Observations.
Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Points of View: Shadows, Photons, Planets, and Life
  • The Biological Universe Revisited
  • Contingency and the Cosmic Perspective
  • Grote Reber (1911-2002)
  • Dr Elizabeth Alexander: First Female Radio Astronomer
  • Radio Astronomy in Holland Before 1960
  • Jodrell Bank and the Meteor Velocity Controversy
  • The Radiophysics Field Stations and the Early Development of Radio Astronomy
  • Dark Matter and the Owens Valley Radio Observatory
  • The Discovery of Sgr A*
  • Radio Astronomy, Whatever that May be
  • Telescopes Lofted to Space
  • The History of Space Astronomy
  • SAO During the Whipple Years
  • The Transits of Venus and New Technologies
  • And the Remaining 22 Photons
  • Gn?monik? Techn?
  • Light Work.

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