search for books and compare prices
astrophysics history matches 12 work(s)
displaying 1 to 12 |
at end
show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest
Product Description: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history of ideas about the sun and the stars, from antiquity to modern times. Two theoretical astrophysicists who have been active in the field since the early 1960s tell the story in fluent prose...read more
Hardcover:
9780691117119 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 6, 2004, cover price $57.50 | About this edition: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history of ideas about the sun and the stars, from antiquity to modern times.
Paperback:
9780691165929 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 5, 2014, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history of ideas about the sun and the stars, from antiquity to modern times.
Product Description: In August 1930, on a boat trip from Bombay to England, the young Indian scientist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar calculated that certain stars could end their lives by collapsing indefinitely to a point - to nowhere. This idea brought Chandra into conflict with Sir Arthur Eddington, the grand old man of British astrophysics, who publicly ridiculed the idea...read more
Hardcover:
9780316725552 | Gardners Books, March 17, 2005, cover price $30.30 | About this edition: In this title, there is friendship, obsession and betrayal in the quest for black holes.
Paperback:
9780349123608 | Gardners Books, October 7, 2010, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: In August 1930, on a boat trip from Bombay to England, the young Indian scientist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar calculated that certain stars could end their lives by collapsing indefinitely to a point - to nowhere.
9780349116273 | Reprint edition (Little Brown Uk, September 28, 2007), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In August 1930, a young Indian scientist, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar calculated that certain stars could end their lives by collapsing indefinitely to a point, to nowhere.
Product Description: A complete history of human endeavors in space, this book also moves beyond the traditional topics of human spaceflight, space technology, and space science to include political, social, cultural, and economic issues, and also commercial, civilian, and military applications...read more
Hardcover:
9781851095148 | Abc-Clio Inc, August 23, 2010, cover price $198.00 | About this edition: A complete history of human endeavors in space, this book also moves beyond the traditional topics of human spaceflight, space technology, and space science to include political, social, cultural, and economic issues, and also commercial, civilian, and military applications.
Product Description: The history of astronomy and astrophysics ranges from antiquity to the landing of spacecraft on the Moon, Mars, Venus, and even an asteroid. Since early times, human beings have sought to understand what they see in the sky. The invention of the telescope opened new avenues of observation and research...read more
Paperback:
9781602642584 | Virtual Bookworm.Com Pub Inc, October 30, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The history of astronomy and astrophysics ranges from antiquity to the landing of spacecraft on the Moon, Mars, Venus, and even an asteroid.
Product Description: The book describes a history of the vortex theory. Introduced at the dawn of science almost 2600 years ago, it had passed through five phases of accumulation of its strength by absorbing the discoveries made during the Greek civilization, the Copernicus Revolution, the age of electromagnetism, the atomic age, and the information age...read more
Paperback:
9781581129465 | Upublish.Com, March 30, 2007, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: The book describes a history of the vortex theory.
Product Description: Part B of Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics continues the history of celestial mechanics and observational discovery through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It provides a synoptic view of the main developments and furnishes details about the lives, ideas, and interactions of the various astronomers involved...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780521351683 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: Part B of Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics continues the history of celestial mechanics and observational discovery through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Hardcover:
9780935702279 | Univ Science Books, April 1, 1994, cover price $34.00
9780028972763, titled "Battle Chronicles of the Civil War: Leaders Index" | Macmillan Library Reference, December 1, 1990, cover price $30.00 | also contains Battle Chronicles of the Civil War: Leaders Index
Paperback:
9781938787799 | Reprint edition (Univ Science Books, February 1, 2015), cover price $32.50
Book by Schroeder, D. J.
Hardcover:
9780819411235 | Society of Photo Optical, May 1, 1993, cover price $125.00
Paperback:
9780819411242 | Society of Photo Optical, May 1, 1993, cover price $119.00 | About this edition: Book by Schroeder, D.
(view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9780521326889 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $33.00
(view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9780028972763 | Macmillan Library Reference, December 1, 1990, cover price $30.00 | also contains Home Is Where the Wind Blows: Chapters from a Cosmologist's Life
Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics: Part A : Tycho Brahe to Newton
(view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9780521242547 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1989, cover price $99.99
Hardcover:
9780674192706 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $38.50 | About this edition: Traces the development of theories to explain why the night sky is dark, looks at modern theories of cosmology, and includes brief profiles of past astronomers
Paperback:
9780674192713 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, March 1, 1989), cover price $30.50 | About this edition: Traces the development of theories to explain why the night sky is dark, looks at modern theories of cosmology, and includes brief profiles of past astronomers
displaying 1 to 12 |
at end