| Publication |
Washington, D.C., National Geographic Society, 2002.
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| Description |
256pBlack Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
Features original and archival photographs and observations on the science of cosmological thinking.
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| Contents |
Introduction
The classical universe
-Ancient cosmologies
-East Asian cosmologies
-Cosmologies of the Americas
-Africa's moral universe
-Star maps: A confluence of art and astronomy
-The great Copernicus chase
The modern universe emerges
-From Newton's universe of stars to Herschel's nebulae
-From Hubble to Hubble
-What is the universe made os?
The current universe
-Learning from the past: Historical supernovae
-The large scale structure of the universe
- Why does an optical astronomer study something she cannot see?
-The dimensional mapping of the dark universe
-Detecting the signature of the big bang
-The big bang and its fireball
-Afterword: Come! Explore the universe
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| Standard Number |
0792264673 Hb.
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