Astronomy category: 2403 books
Celestial Sleuth
Using Astronomy to Solve Mysteries in Art, History and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
For a general audience interested in solving mysteries in art, history, and literature using the methods of science, 'forensic astronomy' is a thrilling new field of exploration. Astronomical calculations are the basis of the studies, which have the advantage of bringing to readers both evocative...
by Forest Ray Moulton, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
An Introduction to Astronomy by F.R. Moulton - The definitive text for learning about the amazing science of Astronomy.
The progress of mankind has been marked by a number of great intellectual movements. At one time the ideas of men were expanding with the knowledge which they were obtaining...
Getting Started in Radio Astronomy
Beginner Projects for the Amateur
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Radio astronomy is a mystery to the majority of amateur astronomers, yet it is the best subject to turn to when desirous of an expanded knowledge of the sky. This guideintends to instruct complete newcomers to radio astronomy, and provides help for the first steps on the road towards the study of...
Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
This second edition has been updated and substantially expanded. Starting with the description of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, this cogently written textbook introduces the reader to the astronomy of galaxies, their structure, active galactic nuclei, evolution and large scale distribution in the...
The Story of Astronomy
From plotting the stars to pulsars and black holes
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
'Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.'
Arthur C. Clarke, The Challenge of the Spaceship
For thousands of years, the stars, planets, Moon and Sun were central to religious and superstitious beliefs. Astronomy has its origins in the context of these beliefs. From this starting...
by David Schultz
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
The Andromeda Galaxy – Messier’s M31 – has an almost romantic appeal. It is the most distant object and the only extragalactic object that is visible to the unaided human eye. Now known to be about 2½ million light-years away, it appears in the sky to be several times the width of the full...
by Camille Flammarion
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
The Science of Astronomy is sublime and beautiful. Noble, elevating, consoling, divine, it gives us wings, and bears us through Infinitude. In these ethereal regions all is pure, luminous, and splendid. Dreams of the Ideal, even of the Inaccessible, weave their subtle spells upon us. The imagination...
Making Waves
The Story of Ruby Payne-Scott: Australian Pioneer Radio Astronomer
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
This book is an abbreviated, partly re-written version of "Under the Radar - The First Woman in Radio Astronomy: Ruby Payne-Scott." It addresses a general readership interested in historical and sociological aspects of astronomy and presents the biography of Ruby Payne-Scott (1912 – 1981)....
Expanse of Heaven, The
Where Creation & Astronomy Intersect
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Intended as a companion book to The Created Cosmos: What the Bible Reveals About Astronomy, the new book, The Expanse of Heaven: Where Creation and Astronomy Intersect, is a comprehensive treatment of astronomy, interpreted within the biblical model of creation. It begins with a chapter on ancient...
by Renato Dicati
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Stamps and other postal documents are an attractive vehicle for presenting astronomy and its development. Written with expertise and great enthusiasm, this unique book offers a historical and philatelic survey of astronomy and some related topics on space exploration. It contains more than 1300 color...
by Yoshiaki Sofue
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
This book is a concise primer on galactic radio astronomy for undergraduate and graduate students, and provides wide coverage of galactic astronomy and astrophysics such as the physics of interstellar matter and the dynamics and structure of the Milky Way Galaxy and galaxies. Radio astronomy and its...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
I am most grateful to Andr´ e Heck for his invitation to write a foreword to OSA Volume 4 – I will use this valued opportunity to emphasise those topics in Vol. 4 which I consider important even if other topics may be of even greater importance in the universal scale of things. At the outset let...
Jaghmīnī’s Mulakhkhaṣ
An Islamic Introduction to Ptolemaic Astronomy
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book provides the only critical edition and English translation of Maḥmūd al-Jaghmīnī’s al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾa al-basīṭa, the most widely circulated Arabic treatise on Ptolemaic astronomy ever written. Composed in the early 13th century, this introductory textbook played a crucial...
by D. Scott Birney, Guillermo Gonzalez, David Oesper
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2006
The long-awaited second edition of this well-received textbook gives a thorough introduction to observational astronomy. Starting with the basics of positional astronomy and systems of time, it continues with charts and catalogs covering both historically important publications and modern electronic...