ISBN: 0745980317 | 2018 | EPUB | 576 Pages | 31 MB This book will take the story of astronomy on from where Allan Chapman left it in Stargazers, and bring it almost up to date, with the developments and discoveries of the last three centuries. He covers...

2018 | ISBN: 0763694894 | English | 176 Pages | EPUB | 40 MB A nation in need of hope, the most powerful rocket ever launched, and the first three men to break the bounds of Earth: Apollo 8 was headed to the moon. In 1957, when the...

English | 2017 | ISBN: 1107048222 | 344 Pages | PDF | 8 MB Relativistic kinetic theory has widespread application in astrophysics and cosmology. The interest has grown in recent years as experimentalists are now able to make reliable measurements on physical systems where relativistic effects are no...

English | January 9th, 2020 | ISBN: 1781259631 | 336 Pages | EPUB | 20.41 MB ‘A delightful and utterly fascinating work of intellectual history.’ Joshua Foer author of Moonwalking with Einstein Despite a resurgence in popularity, horoscopes are generally considered to be pseudoscience today – but they...

2019 | ISBN: 0822945525 | English | 312 Pages | PDF | 11 MB Mass media in the late nineteenth century was full of news from Mars. In the wake of Giovanni Schiaparelli’s 1877 discovery of enigmatic dark, straight lines on the red planet, astronomers and the public...

English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | 169 Pages | PDF | 28 MB On a dark, clear night, a magnificent band of hazy light arches overhead that ancient Greeks likened to a trail of milk spilled across the sky. It is the Milky Way, the galaxy where...

1996 | 193 Pages | ISBN: 041514809X | PDF | 4 MB Based on his famous final year undergraduate lectures on theoretical physics at Birkbeck College, Bohm presents the theory of relativity as a unified whole, making clear the reasons which led to its adoption and explaining its...

2020 | ISBN: 1771888040 | English | 386 Pages | PDF | 40 MB Here is a fascinating reader-friendly exploration of “the phosphorus enigma.” The volume attempts to answer the questions: How did phosphorus atoms, which are produced inside the inner cores of a handful of huge stars,...

2006 | 330 Pages | ISBN: 0521822807 | PDF | 6 MB Space-Time, Relativity, and Cosmology provides a historical introduction to modern relativistic cosmology and traces its historical roots and evolution from antiquity to Einstein. The topics are presented in a non-mathematical manner, with the emphasis on the...