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Kosmos : Course of Six Lectures on the Development of our Inisght into the Structure of the Universe, Delivered for the Lowell Institute in Boston, in November 1931 /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2013]
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| Edición: | Reprint 2013 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- I. Introduction: Aims and Methods of Scientific Research · The Ancients; Ptolemy and Copernicus
- II. Birth of Modern Astronomy · Kepler, Galileo, Newton · The Eighteenth Century
- III. The Beginning of Sidereal Astronomy · William Herschel and His Successors
- IV. Further Observational Advances · The Survey of the "Local System" · Life-Work Of J. C. Kapteyn
- V. Photography and Spectroscopy · The Great Telescopes · The Galactic and the Extra-Galactic Systems
- VI. Relativity and Modern Theories of the Universe · Conclusion