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Star-Craving Mad : Tales from a travelling astronomer.
A journey through time and space with Australia's best known astronomer, Fred Watson.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sydney :
Allen & Unwin,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover; Half-title page; Title page; Imprint page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Interplanetary travellers. Journeys through pace and time; 2 Here Come the Ubernerds. Planets, Pluto and Prague; 3 Unlucky for some. Peru's ancient skywatchers; 4 Stargazers behaving badly. Astronomy's controversial awakening; 5 Terribly British. Heroes of the Age of Reason; 6 Tools of the trade. Positivism to photonics; 7 Home Truths. Digging up the ruins of our Galaxy; 8 A matter of some gravity. Straight talking on curved space; 9 Greening the Universe. Towards sustainable space science.
- 10 Dark Secrets. Astronomy's big questions11 Get a life. Microbes and multiverses; 12 The ultimate journey. Science's deepest realities; Epilogue; Further Reading; Index; Picture section.