Hindsight and popular astronomy /
There are many books that endeavor to bridge the gap between scientists and laymen, yet too many overemphasize the presentation of scientific findings as hard facts and end up alienating readers from the critical thinking processes involved in science. Whiting attempts to break away from the norm in...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Jersey :
World Scientific,
©2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Contents; 1. One Question and Two Ironies; 2. Positions, Orbits and Calculations; 3. Sir John Herschel, Treatise on Astronomy, 1833; 4. Sir George Biddell Airy, Popular Astronomy, 1848; 5. Heat, Light and Three Bodies; 6. Sir John Herschel, Outlines of Astronomy, Tenth Edition, 1869; 7. Simon Newcomb, Popular Astronomy, 1878; 8. Sir Robert S. Ball, In the High Heavens, 1893; 9. Simon Newcomb, Astronomy for Everybody, 1902; 10. Things Get Strange: Quanta and Relativity; 11. Sir James Jeans, The Universe Around Us, First Edition, 1929.