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Op 6 juni 2012 was Venus, de helderste ster van het heelal, een paar uur lang te zien als een volmaakt zwart rondje dat voor de zon langs trok. Het bijzondere van dit hemelverschijnsel is dat deze zogenaamde Venusovergangen altijd in paren met een…

De verbluffende verhalen van de wetenschappers die in de achttiende eeuw de omvang van ons zonnestelsel wisten te berekenen komen in dit boek samen met de grote geschiedenis. Wie in de achttiende eeuw het heelal wilde doorgronden, moest creatief…

Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630) ontdekte dat planeten niet in cirkels maar in ellipsen om de zon draaien. Het was een controversiële ontdekking. Veel astronomen geloofden nog dat de aarde in het centrum van de wereld stond. Een ellipsvormige baan ging…

The autobiography of one of the preeminent figures in twentieth-century physics. He studied with Niels Bohr, taught Richard Feynman, and boned up on relativity with his friend and colleague Albert Einstein. John Archibald Wheeler's fascinating life…

Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars by Mabel Armstrong is the first in a planned series of "Discovering Women in Science" books for Young Adults. Women Astronomers covers some of the fascinating women who dared to look toward the stars from the…

The author does not attempt to give a general survey of early astronomy; rather, he chooses to present a few episodes and treats them in detail. However, first he provides the necessary astronomical background in his descriptive account of what you…

Radio astronomy was born during the Second World War, but as this book explains, the history of early Dutch radio astronomy is in several respects rather anomalous in comparison to the development of radio astronomy in other countries. The author…

The author chronicles the search for . . . a theory to explain all natural fields and their interaction with particles. . . . Lives and contributions of physicists and cosmologists, starting with the pioneers of scientific cosmology in the 19th…

Astronomer By Chance is an especially apt title. Living in the small, isolated village of Oldland Common midway between Bath and Bristol, the twin pursuits of the young Bernard Lovell, playing the church organ and playing cricket, gave no indication…