This is an entirely new edition of Harold Zirin's classic text on the solar atmosphere. Combining an introductory course in astrophysics with a comprehensive treatment of the theoretical and observational aspects of our present knowledge of the sun,…
Bridging the gap between physics and astronomy textbooks, this book provides step-by-step physical and mathematical development of fundamental astrophysical processes underlying a wide range of phenomena in stellar, galactic, and extragalactic…
Astrophysics With a PC is the first book to appear in the English language for amateur astronomers who want to explore astrophysics with a personal computer. Among the subjects covered are the morphology of comet tails, meteor dynamics, distance…
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…