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This book provides an introduction to the fundamentals of stellar astronomy, a history of astronomy, and an account of how the science of astronomy challenged traditional philosophical and theological beliefs. Throughout the text are readings from…

Mostly Harmless is the fifth installment in the trilogy, and the last written by franchise creator himself. Set several years after the fourth one, its plot divides into three distinct branches. The first concerns the series protagonist, hapless…

It's the ultimate technology: nanotechnology - the attempt to build ordinary objects from the atoms up, molecule by molecule. So named because its building blocks are the smallest pieces of matter, nanotechnology will give us complete control over…

Newtons naam is verbonden aan veel wetten en theorieën. We kennen 'de newton' als eenheid van kracht, de bewegingswetten van Newton en de zwaartekrachtstheorie van Newton. De laatste wordt vaak geïllustreerd aan de hand van de beroemde anekdote met…

Bohr was the first to understand how atoms were put together, he played a major role in shaping the theory of the atomic nucleus, he decoded the atomic spectrum of hydrogen, an achievement which marks him as the founder of the quantum dynamics of…

The twentieth century has been a remarkable epoch in the affairs of men, and this is no less true of astronomy, at once the oldest and most modern of the sciences. Sky watchers at the beginning of the century measured positions and predicted…

this groundbreaking work of astronomy proposed a heliocentric universe in which planets orbited the sun-daring to challenge the Ptolemaic ideal of the earth as the center of the universe. This essay by Copernicus (1473-1543), revolutionized the way…