David A J Seargent: 9 books
Weird Weather
Tales of Astronomical and Atmospheric Anomalies
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
This book is, in a sense, a sequel to David Seargent's first Springer book Weird Astronomy (2010). Whereas Weird Astronomy extended over a broad range of purely astronomical topics, the present work concentrates on phenomena closer to home; the atmospheric and "shallow space" events as...
Weird Worlds
Bizarre Bodies of the Solar System and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
“Weird Worlds” is the third book in David Seargent’s “Weird” series. This book assumes a basic level of astronomical understanding and concentrates on the “odd and interesting” aspects of planetary bodies, including asteroids and moons. From our viewpoint here on Earth, this work features...
Weird Universe
Exploring the Most Bizarre Ideas in Cosmology
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
As new discoveries complicate the scientific picture of the universe, the evolving theories about the nature of space and time and the origins and fate of the universe threaten to become overwhelming. Enter David Seargent. Continuing the author's series of books popularizing strange astronomy facts...
Copernicus, God, and Goldilocks
Our Place and Purpose in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2001
In this book, author David Seargent takes issue with the assumption, long held in Western thought, that mankind and the planet we inhabit, has no special or privileged features; that our being here is purely a matter of chance. Typically, the so-called Copernican Principle which, in essence, is simply...
Weird Comets and Asteroids
The Strange Little Worlds of the Sun's Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
This book concentrates on some of the odd aspects of comets and asteroids. Strange behavior of comets, such as outbursts and schisms, and how asteroids can temporally act as comets are discussed, together with the possible threat of Centaurs-class objects like the Taurid complex.
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Plurality and Continuity
An Essay in G.F. Stout’s Theory of Universals
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by D. M. Armstrong In the history of the discussion of the problem of universals, G. F. Stout has an honoured, and special. place. For the Nominalist, meaning by that term a philosopher who holds that existence of repeatables - kinds, sorts, type- and the indubitable existence of general terms, is...
Weird Astronomy
Tales of Unusual, Bizarre, and Other Hard to Explain Observations
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Weird Astronomy appeals to all who are interested in unusual celestial phenomena, whether they be amateur or professional astronomers or science buffs who just enjoy reading of odd coincidences, unexplained observations, and reports from space probes that "don’t quite fit." This book relates...
Cometography: Volume 6, 1983–1993
A Catalog of Comets
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Cometography is a multi-volume catalog of every comet observed from ancient times up to the 1990s, when the internet took off as a medium of scientific record. It uses the most reliable orbits known to determine the distances from the Earth and Sun at the time of discovery and last observation, as...
by David A. J. Seargent
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In these days of computers and CCD cameras, visual comet observers can still contribute scientifically useful data with the help of this handy reference for use in the field. Comets are one of the principal areas for productive pro-amateur collaboration in astronomy, but finding comets requires...