Colleague and confidant of Einstein and Bohr, and pioneer of nuclear fission, John A. Wheeler is one of our most original and profound thinkers. In 1939 he published, with Niels Bohr, the first paper to successfully describe nuclear fission in terms…
Contains all stars having precisely determined positions between +30 and +90 degrees.It measures stars down to and beyond 12.75. It also identifies double stars, spectroscopic binaries, variable stars down to magnitude 10, and also all the stars are…
L'Atlas de l'astronomie donne une vue d'ensemble sur les méthodes et les résultats actuels de la science du ciel, avec des tableaux en couleurs et des textes explicatifs. Extraits du sommaire Histoire de l'astronomie. Instruments et méthodes de…
Het boek toont een aantal van de belangrijkste kaarten uit 5 eeuwen van atlasmaken. De in fraaie kleuren uitgevoerde kaarten en details(ca. 300 illustraties) worden begeleid door ietwat beknopt kartografisch en historisch commentaar van Philip Allen,…
A complete visual reference for meteorite classification, this atlas combines high resolution optical microscope images with detailed descriptions. It provides a systematic account of meteorites and their most important classification parameters,…
Giant as it is, Neptune is so remote that it is below naked-eye visibility and so was not discovered until the development of the telescope. As the most distant major planet in the solar system, Neptune was the last to be visited by a spacecraft from…
• Simply THE most comprehensive guide to the Messier Objects ever published
• Combines detailed historical, astrophysical, statistical and observing information for each object with stunning astrophotos and telescope sketches
• Reproduces the text of…