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Don DeNevi: Naar de grenzen van het Heelal. Plannen en ideeën van ruimtewetenschappers die, zo dachten ze toen dit boek in 1979 werd uitgegeven, in het jaar 2000 werkelijkheid zouden zijn geworden. "De eeuw van Star Trek en Star Wars is aangebroken",…

Denis Berthier has spent thirty years observing the night sky from within a city and his practical guide will enable amateur astronomers to observe and photograph stars, planets and other celestial objects from their own town. It is becoming…

This unique work draws on the greatest minds of our time - Linus Pauling, Richard Feynman, Hans Bethe, George Wald, Paul Dirac, Arno Penzias, Ashley Montagu, Theodor Reik, Hans Selye, and Roger Sperry, among many others - in the pursuit of…

Two scientists provide a popular account of the search for planetary systems outside our own solar system, detailing the technology and scientific techniques that make such searches possible and the discoveries that have been made.

Introduction; 1. A much misunderstood man; 2. Magnolias and marigolds: hippos and hiatuses; 3. Modern terrestrial deposits; 4. Ancient terrestrial deposits; 5. Modern shorelines; 6. Ancient shorelines; 7. Ancient platform deposits; 8. Off-shore…

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…

Guiding the reader through all the stages that lead to the formation of a star such as our Sun, this advanced textbook provides students with a complete overview of star formation. It examines the underlying physical processes that govern the…