This handbook for graduate students, technicians and researchers working in space astronomy has been updated and revised and new features have been added. It presents new information in tables, graphs and formulas and assembles scattered primary…
Book Five of Johannes Kepler's great masterpiece on planetary motion is presented with an introduction by the ultimate authority on this topic, noted physicist and bestselling author Stephen Hawking. Modifying Copernicus's sun-centered model of…
Heavenly Mathematics traces the rich history of spherical trigonometry, revealing how the cultures of classical Greece, medieval Islam, and the modern West used this forgotten art to chart the heavens and the Earth. Once at the heart of astronomy and…
Het heelal (Engels: A Brief History of Time) is een populair-wetenschappelijk boek geschreven door Stephen Hawking, dat voor het eerst werd uitgegeven in 1988. Hoewel Hawking in vakkringen al wereldberoemd was, werd door dit boek zijn naam ook bekend…