Archives of the Universe (eBook, ePUB)

100 Discoveries That Transformed Our Understanding of the Cosmos
Redaktion: Bartusiak, Marcia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An unparalleled history of astronomy presented in the words of the scientists who made the discoveries. Here are the writings of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Halley, Hubble, and Einstein, as well as that of dozens of others who have significantly contributed to our picture of the universe. From Aristotle's proof that the Earth is round to the 1998 paper that posited an accelerating universe, this book contains 100 entries spanning the history of astronomy. Award-winning science writer Marcia Bartusiak provides enormously entertaining introductions, putting the material in context and explaining its place in the literature. Archives of the Universe is essential reading for professional astronomers, science history buffs, and backyard stargazers alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 720
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307513236
• Artikelnr.: 38192150

Autorenporträt

Marcia Bartusiak is the author of Thursday’s Universe, Through a Universe Darkly, and Einstein’s Unfinished Symphony. Her work has appeared in many magazines, including Astronomy, National Geographic, Discover, Science, and Smithsonian. A two-time winner of the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, she teaches in the graduate program in science writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lives in Sudbury, Massachusetts, with her husband.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
I. The Ancient Sky
1 Mayan Venus Tables
2 Proof That the Earth Is a Sphere
3 Celestial Surveying
4 Measuring the Earth’s Circumference
5 Precession of the Equinoxes
6 Ptolemy’s Almagest
II. Revolutions
7 Copernicus and the Sun-Centered Universe
8 Tycho Brahe and the Changing Heavens
9 Johannes Kepler and Planetary Motion
10 Galileo Initiates the Telescopic Era
11 Newton’s Universal Law of Gravity
12 Halley’s Comet
13 Binary Stars
III. Taking Measure
14 The Speed of Light
15 The Solar System’s Origin
16 Discovery of Uranus
17 Stars Moving and Changing
18 The First Asteroid
19 Distance to a Star
20 Discovery of Neptune
21 The Shape of the Milky Way
22 Spiraling Nebulae
IV. Touching the Heavens
23 Spectral Lines
24 Deciphering the Solar Spectrum
25 Gaseous Nebulae
26 Doppler Shifts and Spectroscopic Binaries
27 Classification of the Stars
28 Giant Stars and Dwarf Stars
29 Hydrogen: The Prime Element
30 Stellar Mass, Luminosity, and Stability
31 Sunspot Cycle, Sun/Earth Connection, and Helium
32 Origin of Meteors and Shooting Stars
33 Cosmic Rays
34 Discovery of Pluto
V. Einsteinian Cosmos
35 Special Relativity and E = mc2
36 General Relativity and the Solar Eclipse Test
37 Relativistic Models of the Universe
38 Big Bang Versus Steady State
39 White Dwarf Stars
40 Beyond the White Dwarf
41 Supernovae and Neutron Stars
42 Black Holes
43 Source of Stellar Power
44 Creating Elements in the Big Bang
45 Cosmic Microwave Background Predicted
46 Creating Elements in the Stars
47 A Star’s Life Cycle
VI. The Milky Way and Beyond
48 Cepheids: The Cosmic Standard Candles
49 Sun’s Place in the Milky Way
50 Dark Nebulae and Interstellar Matter
51 Discovery of Other Galaxies
52 Expansion of the Universe
53 Stellar Populations and Resizing the Universe
54 Mapping the Milky Way’s Spiral Arms
55 Source and Composition of Comets
VII. New Eyes, New Universe
56 Radio Astronomy
57 Interstellar Hydrogen
58 Molecules in Space
59 Van Allen Radiation Belts
60 Geology of Mars
61 Extrasolar X-Ray Sources
62 Quasars
63 Evidence for the Big Bang
64 Pulsars
65 The Infrared Sky and the Galactic Center
66 Neutrino Astronomy
67 Gamma-Ray Bursts
68 Binary Pulsar and Gravity Waves
VIII. Accelerating Outward
69 Dark Matter
70 Gravitational Lensing
71 Inflation
72 The Bubbly Universe
73 Galaxy Evolution and the Hubble Deep Field
74 Extrasolar Planets
75 The Accelerating Universe
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index