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Volume 2 contains the basic physical ideas and laws used in the study of the outer layers of a star including stellar magnitudes, spectra and temperatures, radiative transfer in a stellar atmosphere, line formation, the spectrum of hydrogen, spectral…

This book is the final one in a series of three texts which together provide a modern, complete and authoritative account of our present knowledge of the stars. It discusses the internal structure and the evolution of stars, and is completely…

In the last few years webcam astrophotography has exploded onto the astronomy scene. It has rapidly evolved from short exposure six-bit black-and-white imagery into long-exposure full-color 16-bit per channel imagery of such qualitythat it rivals…

Dit boek, is een synthese van de kennis over de gevolgen van lage dosissen ioniserende straling. Het is in de eerste plaats bestemd voor personen die niet dagelijks met het onderwerp te maken hebben maar belangstelling hebben voor wetenschappen ; het…

Around four billion years ago, natural chemical reactions led to the formation of organic molecules in the Earth's waters. From these, nucleic acids emerged, then cells, then multicellular organisms, and, ultimately, the astonishing biodiversity on…

Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral—an unheard-of honour for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the…

As a schoolbook figure, Isaac Newton is most often pictured sitting under an apple tree, about to discover the secrets of gravity. In this short biography, James Gleick reveals the life of a man whose contributions to science and math included far…

L'astronomie, la plus ancienne et la plus moderne des sciences, vous deviendra bientôt familière; à l'époque de l'astronautique, des fusées pour la lune ou pour Vénus, c'est indispensable; mais aussi passionnant, hallucinant!