Dit boek behandelt volgende hoofdstukken:1. Onze maan2. De man als planeet3. Storingen en zo4. Eb en vloed en het ontstaan van de maan5. Avonturen met de sterrenkijker6. Wetenschap en maneschijn7. In de schaduw van de aarde8. Sterbedekkingen en…
Written by a dedicated selenophile (a person who loves the Moon), this guide to Earth's celestial companion is a non-technical narrative that quickly elevates the lunar novice to lunar authority.
Photographic Atlas of the Moon explains how the Earth…
A Comprehensive Observer's Handbook of the Known Moon
The handbook begins with a section on the Moon’s place in human history, mythology and lore, before gravitating closer to the Moon itself through scientific sections on the Earth-Moon system,…
A Comprehensive Observer's Handbook of the Known Moon
The handbook begins with a section on the Moon’s place in human history, mythology and lore, before gravitating closer to the Moon itself through scientific sections on the Earth-Moon system,…
A Comprehensive Observer's Handbook of the Known Moon
The handbook begins with a section on the Moon’s place in human history, mythology and lore, before gravitating closer to the Moon itself through scientific sections on the Earth-Moon system,…
Alanna Mitchell's globe-trotting history of the science of electromagnetism and the Earth's magnetic field--right up to the latest indications that the North and South Poles may soon reverse, with apocalyptic results--will soon change the way you…
Cyclic Patterns of Lunar Phases, Eclipses, and the Seasons
In the early seventeenth century, Galileo Galilei posited that tides were a consequence of Earths motion. Today we’ve achieved an accurate understanding of the ways that orbiting objects…
Dans les régions proches des cercles polaires, le ciel nocturne offre de fabuleux spectacles. Avec un peu de chance et une météo clémente, les visiteurs y admirent de grands voiles colorés danser d'un horizon à l'autre... Ce sont les aurores…
Every generation has looked up from the Earth and wondered at the beauty of the Moon. 50 years ago, a few Americans became the first to do the reverse - with the whole world watching through their eyes.
In this short but wide-ranging book, Oliver…
This is a definitive, masterly history and synthesis of all that has been said (by theologians and scientists) and is known (to science) about the question, How old is the Earth? It explains in a simple and straightforward way the evidence and logic…