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Foundations of Astronomy
ISBN: 9780534085445 | 053408544X
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Pub. Date: 12/30/1987
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| The Scale of the Cosmos | p. 1 |
| The Sky | p. 17 |
| The Earth and Sky | p. 18 |
| Lunar Phases, Tides, and Eclipses | p. 41 |
| The Origin of Modern Astronomy | p. 65 |
| Newton, Einstein, and Gravity | p. 91 |
| Light and Telescopes | p. 113 |
| The Stars | p. 139 |
| Starlight and Atoms | p. 140 |
| The Sun - Our Star | p. 163 |
| Measuri... MORE | p. 185 |
| Binary Stars | p. 207 |
| The Formation of Stars | p. 225 |
| Stellar Evolution | p. 253 |
| The Deaths of Stars | p. 277 |
| Neutron Stars and Black Holes | p. 299 |
| The Universe | p. 323 |
| The Milky Way | p. 324 |
| Galaxies | p. 349 |
| Peculiar Galaxies | p. 373 |
| Cosmology | p. 397 |
| The Solar System | p. 421 |
| The Origin of the Solar System | p. 422 |
| Planet Earth | p. 443 |
| The Moon and Mercury: Airless Worlds | p. 459 |
| Venus and Mars | p. 485 |
| Jupiter and Saturn | p. 513 |
| Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto | p. 545 |
| Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets | p. 573 |
| Life | p. 605 |
| Life on Other Worlds | p. 606 |
| Afterword | p. 627 |
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