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Astronomy Today Vol 1: The Solar System
ISBN: 9780136155492 | 0136155499
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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This straightforward volume presents a broad view of astronomy spanning known facts, evolving ideas, and frontier discoveries. The authors combine qualitative reasoning and analogies with familiar objects and phenomena to awaken readers to the excitement of the universe around them. Incorporates new understanding and emphases in contemporary astronomy, including the latest data on topics ranging from adaptive optics and solar system formation to extrasolar planets and the recent missions to Mars. Top-notch illustration program exploits the full... MORE
| Astronomy and the Universe | |
| Charting The Heavens: The Foundations of Astronomy | |
| Our Place in Space | |
| Scientific Theory and the Scientific Method | |
| The ""Obvious"" View | |
| Earth's Orbital Motion | |
| Astronomical Timekeeping | |
| The Motion of the Moon | |
| The Measurement of Distance Chapter Review | |
| ... MORE | |
| The Geocentric Universe | |
| The Heliocentric Model of the Solar Sys | |
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