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When Peter Hill, a student at Dundee College of Art, answered an advert in The Scotsman seeking lighthouse keepers, little did he imagine that within a month he would be living with three men he did……続きを見る

Children, adults, and scientists alike are fascinated by dinosaurs. However, nearly all discussions of dinosaurs in museums and textbooks assume a distant evolutionary beginning to the earth. How ca……続きを見る

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This exciting tour of our Universe explores our current knowledge of exoplanets and the search for another Earth-like planet. Beginning with the basic concepts of planet formation and the compositio……続きを見る

‘My final Science Fiction novel’ – Brian Aldiss Brian Aldiss has announced that this book, Finches of Mars, will be his final science fiction novel. And what a way to end one of the most illustrious……続きを見る

Adopted as the official book of the International Year of Astronomy (IYA) 2009, this stunningly illustrated history of telescopic discovery spans the range from the first telescopes via the Hubble S……続きを見る

The Positional Astronomy is the science describing the position of an object in the sky and its movement in the celestial sphere. In this book the argument is treated in a plain but exhaustive and r……続きを見る

An unparalleled history of astronomy presented in the words of the scientists who made the discoveries. Here are the writings of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Halley, Hubble, and Einstein, as……続きを見る

Physikalische Kurzgeschichten zur Entstehung unserer Welt - selektiert aus PhiuZ, logisch miteinander verknüpft und leicht verdaulich literarisch aufgearbeitet sind sie unterhaltsame, amüsante und s……続きを見る

Choosing and Using the New CAT will supersede the author’s successful Choosing and Using a Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope, which has enjoyed enthusiastic support from the amateur astronomy community f……続きを見る

Heavenly Intrigue is the fascinating, true account of the seventeenth-century collaboration between Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe that revolutionized our understanding of the universe–and ended in……続きを見る

Le galassie sono enormi ammassi di stelle tenute insieme per attrazione reciproca, così da costituire un sistema autogravitante, Il nome deriva dal greco γαλαξίας (galaxìas), che significa "latteo".……続きを見る

The month-by-month forecast for people with birthdays between 21st May and 20th June. This book tells you all you need to know to find out what is in store for you in the year ahead. Your essential ……続きを見る

La Via Lattea (dal latino Via Lactea) è la galassia alla quale appartiene il sistema solare, la cui formazione risale a circa dieci miliardi di anni fa. Viene considerata la Galassia per antonomasia……続きを見る

Stop to think about this one simple little fact. Our species exists only on the Earth - we have all our eggs in the one basket. One simple mishap could wipe out all of humankind, every single moment……続きを見る

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) needs no formal introduction, being one of the most famous astronomers and scientists in history. After four years, Galileo had announced to his father that he wanted to ……続きを見る

Astrobiology is an exciting interdisciplinary field that seeks to answer one of the most important and profound questions: are we alone? In this volume, leading international experts explore the fro……続きを見る

What are these graceful visitors to our skies? We now know that they bring both life and death and teach us about our origins. Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet.……続きを見る

I have spent many wonderful nights observing at a variety of places around the world, but many of my fondest memories come from those made at the Custer Observatory in Southold on Long Island, where……続きを見る

Eclipses have amazed and terrified people for thousands of years. The sky grows dark. Daytime animals go to sleep and nocturnal animals wake up. Roosters crow and cows come in for milking. The sun i……続きを見る

Beginning from first principles and adopting a modular structure, this book develops the fundamental physical methods needed to describe and understand a wide range of seemingly very diverse astroph……続きを見る

The month-by-month forecast for people with birthdays between 23rd September and 22nd October. This book tells you all you need to know to find out what is in store for you in the year ahead. Your e……続きを見る

With drama equal to any fiction, this article explores the story of how a major research institution came into being at the top of a mountain at the end of the 19th Century. 続きを見る

Spectroscopy is the principal tool used in astronomy to investigate the Universe beyond Earth's atmosphere. Through the analysis of electromagnetic radiation, spectrographs enable observers to asses……続きを見る

The year is 2035, and the crew from the first expedition to Mars is returning to Earth. The crewmembers are anxious to get home, and ennui pervades the ship. The mood is broken by a series of myster……続きを見る

Image registration employs digital image processing in order to bring two or more digital images into precise alignment for analysis and comparison. Accurate registration algorithms are essential fo……続きを見る

A cogent portrayal of a turning point in the evolution of the freedom of thought and the beginnings of modern science. Celebrated, controversial, condemned, Galileo Galilei is a seminal figure in th……続きを見る

Was Mercury bigger in the past? How did Venus change the way people saw the world? What is happening to Mount Everest, the highest place on Earth? Does Mars have seasons? Is there a surface to the p……続きを見る

In 1761, with the world at war on five continents, 171 men from over a dozen countries were dispatched about the globe to observe a rare celestial event: the passage of the planet Venus between the ……続きを見る

These are the proceedings of an international meeting hosted by the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the dedication of the UKIRT, the United Kingdom InfraRed Tele……続きを見る