203 pages. Dust Jacket un-clipped. No internal inscriptions, torn or missing pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Science & Technology; Astronomy; Cosmology; ISBN: 0813534046. ISBN/EAN: 9780813534046. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 52181.

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T�tulo

Measuring the Cosmos

Editor

Rutgers University Press, USA

Fecha de publicaci�n

2004

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0813534046

ISBN 13

9780813534046

Encuadernaci�n

Hardcover

Edici�n

First Edition.

Estado

Very Good

Estado de la sobrecubierta

Very Good

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Science & Technology

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Sinopsis

The skies have inspired reflection on the vastness of space, the wonder of creation, and humankind's role in the universe. In just over 100 years, science has moved from almost total ignorance about the actual distances to the stars and earth's place in the galaxy to contemporary knowledge about the enormous size, mass and the age of the universe. We are reaching the limits of observation, and therefore the limits of human understanding. Beyond lies only imagination, seeded by the theories of physics. Here, science writers David and Matthew Clark tell the stories of both well-known and the unsung heroes who played key roles in these discoveries. These true accounts reveal ambitions, conflicts, failures, as well as successes, as the scale and age of the universe were finally established. Few areas of scientific research have witnessed such drama in the form of geo clashes, priority claims, or failed (or even falsified) theories as that resulting from attempts to measure the universe.

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"From the Greek thinkers to modern astronomers using the sharpest tools of today's technology, Measuring the Cosmos shows how we've learned mankind is not at the center of things, but located on one small planet circling an ordinary star at the outskirts of the Milky Way in a large, expanding, accelerating universe of galaxies. The Clarks are expert guides on this journey of exploration." From the Greek thinkers to modern astronomers using the sharpest tools of today's technology, Measuring the Cosmos shows how we've learned mankind is not at the center of things, but located on one small planet circling an ordinary star at the outskirts of the Milky Way in a large expanding, accelerating universe of galaxies. The Clarks are expert guides on this journey of exploration.--Robert P. Kirshner "author of The Extravagent Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accele "

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