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An Introduction to the Sun and Stars
Compiled by a team of experts, this textbook has been designed for elementary university courses in astronomy and astrophysics. Beginning with a discussion of our nearest star, the Sun, the volume then considers how astronomers study the basic…
An introduduction to the Sun en Stars
Compiled by a team of experts, this textbook introduces the properties and evolution of the most immediately visible objects in the Universe – stars. Designed for elementary university courses in astronomy and astrophysics, it starts with a detailed…
Hubble's Universe: A New Picture of Space
A collection of photographs of space taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Fermat's Last Theorem
When Cambridge mathematician Andrew Wiles announced a solution for Fermat's last theorem in 1993, it electrified the world of mathematics. After a flaw was discovered in the proof, Wiles had to work for another year--he had already laboured in…
Van Grote Beer en Orion het verhaal achter de sterrren
Diana is de godin van de jacht. Ze heeft een geweldige hekel aan mannen en eist dat haar vriendinnen, allemaal beeldschone nimfen, er net zo over denken. Als de nimf Callisto zich laat verleiden door Jupiter en zwanger raakt, verandert Diana haar uit…
Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light-Based on the Fourth Edition London, 1730
One of the most readable of all the great classics of physical science, Opticks comprises a comprehensive survey of 18th-century knowledge of light, describing Newtons own experiments with spectroscopy, colors, lenses, reflection, refraction and…
Het geheimzinnig heelal
Het boek combineert de toenmalige wetenschappelijke ontdekkingen in de astrofysica, met name de kwantumtheorie, met filosofische overpeinzingen over de aard van het universum en de plaats van de mens daarin. Jeans begint het boek met de allegorie van…