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Asteroids relics of ancient time
Where do asteroids come from and what are they made of? What clues do they hold about the evolution of the Solar System? Scientists have catalogued hundreds of thousands of asteroids, and many are thought to contain water and amino acids, the…
Modern Theories of the Universe, from Herschel to Hubble
This book provides an introduction to the fundamentals of stellar astronomy, a history of astronomy, and an account of how the science of astronomy challenged traditional philosophical and theological beliefs. Throughout the text are readings from…
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy (Cambridge Illustrated Histories)
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy traces the history of astronomy as a science, describing in detail the various discoveries that have led to our current beliefs about space and the universe. It shows how speculations based on sky-gazing…
Five equations that changed the world
Dr. Guillen unravels the equations that have led to the inventions and events that characterize the modern world, one of which -- Albert Einstein's famous energy equation, E=mc2 -- enabled the creation of the nuclear bomb. Also revealed are the…
Fractals everywhere
Second editionIntroduces fractal geometry, and covers transformations on metric spaces, dynamics on fractals, the fractal dimension, fractal interpolation, Julia sets, parameter spaces, and measures on fractals
The Elegant Universe
One of the most ambitious and exciting scientific theories ever posed—one that may be the long-sought "Theory of Everything"—gets a masterful and lavishly animated explanation that will excite scientists and non-scientists alike. Beginning with…
Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe
The first planet around a sunlike star was finally detected in 1995, after decades of false alarms. It was inevitable that within a couple of years a flood of books on extrasolar planets would gush forth. Michael Lemonick is the senior science writer…
