Universe
A Historical Survey of Beliefs, Theories, and Laws
1st Edition
Published on 10. January 2009
219 pages
978-1-61530-055-6 (ISBN)
Description
The universe has been both a subject of study and supplier of fresh mysteries. This book tackles a topic that is infinitely broad with extreme precision and careful organization, bringing the far reaches of the universe squarely into the hands and minds of readers.
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- BOOK COVER
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1: IN THE BEGINNING
- EARLIEST CONCEPTIONS OF THE UNIVERSE
- ASTRONOMICAL THEORIES OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS
- THE SYSTEM OF ARISTOTLE AND ITS IMPACT ON MEDIEVAL THOUGHT
- CHAPTER 2: THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION
- GALILEO
- THE INFINITE UNIVERSE
- KEPLER'S LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION
- TYCHONIC SYSTEM
- CHAPTER 3: NEWTON'S IMPACT AND 19TH-CENTURY ADVANCEMENTS
- NEWTON'S LAW OF GRAVITATION
- CONTRIBUTIONS OF EDMOND HALLEY
- HALLEY AND NEWTON
- TRACKING COMETS AND STARS
- THE DISCOVERIES OF WILLIAM HERSCHEL
- THE HERSCHEL LEGACY
- TAKING ASTRONOMY TO A NEW LEVEL
- NEWCOMB'S TABLES AND CONSTANTS
- CHAPTER 4: PERCEPTIONS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
- SHAPLEY'S CONTRIBUTIONS
- RELATIVISTIC COSMOLOGIES
- GRAVITATION AND THE GEOMETRY OF SPACE-TIME
- EINSTEIN'S MODEL
- DE SITTER'S MODEL
- FRIEDMANN-LEMAÎTRE MODELS
- THE EINSTEIN-DE SITTER UNIVERSE
- BOUND AND UNBOUND UNIVERSES AND THE CLOSURE DENSITY
- HUBBLE'S RESEARCH ON EXTRAGALACTIC SYSTEMS
- THE HUBBLE LAW
- HENRY NORRIS RUSSELL
- SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON
- CHAPTER 5: EXPANDING STUDY OF THE UNIVERSE
- THE NATURE OF SPACE AND TIME
- THE HOT BIG BANG
- THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND
- PRIMORDIAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
- THE DEUTERIUM ABUNDANCE
- THE VERY EARLY UNIVERSE
- INHOMOGENEOUS NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
- MATTER-ANTIMATTER ASYMMETRY
- SUPERUNIFICATION AND THE PLANCK ERA
- INFLATION
- STEADY STATE THEORY AND OTHER ALTERNATIVE COSMOLOGIES
- DARK MATTER AND DARK ENERGY
- DARK MATTER
- DARK ENERGY
- CHAPTER 6: ANCIENT AND EARLY ASTRONOMERS
- ANCIENT TIMES
- ANAXIMANDER
- ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS
- ERATOSTHENES OF CYRENE
- HERACLEIDES PONTICUS
- HIPPARCHUS
- KIDINNU
- PTOLEMY
- MEDIEVAL
- AL-BATTANI
- AL-BIRUNI
- RENAISSANCE
- GEORG RHETICUS
- 17TH CENTURY
- JOHANN BAYER
- GIAN DOMENICO CASSINI
- JOHN FLAMSTEED
- JOHANNES HEVELIUS
- JEREMIAH HORROCKS
- SIMON MARIUS
- NICOLAS-CLAUDE FABRI DE PEIRESC
- JEAN PICARD
- JEAN RICHER
- OLE RØMER
- 18TH CENTURY
- JEAN-SYLVAIN BAILLY
- JEAN-BAPTISTE-GASPARD BOCHART DE SARON
- JOHANN BODE
- PIERRE BOUGUER
- JACQUES CASSINI
- JEAN-BAPTISTE-JOSEPH DELAMBRE
- JOSEPH-NICOLAS DELISLE
- JOHN GOODRICKE
- NICOLAS DE LACAILLE
- JÉRÔME LALANDE
- JOHANN MAYER
- CHARLES MESSIER
- DAVID RITTENHOUSE
- JOHANN TITIUS
- CHAPTER 7: NOTABLE ASTRONOMERS OF THE 19TH CENTURY
- JOHN COUCH ADAMS
- SIR GEORGE AIRY
- FRIEDRICH ARGELANDER
- EDWARD EMERSON BARNARD
- WILLIAM CRANCH BOND
- LEWIS BOSS
- WILLIAM WALLACE CAMPBELL
- JAMES CHALLIS
- HEINRICH D'ARREST
- SIR GEORGE DARWIN
- WILLIAM RUTTER DAWES
- CHARLES-EUGÈNE DELAUNAY
- JOHAN DREYER
- JOHANN FRANZ ENCKE
- WILLIAMINA PATON STEVENS FLEMING
- JOSEPH VON FRAUNHOFER
- JOHANN GALLE
- SIR DAVID GILL
- JAMES GILLISS
- BENJAMIN GOULD
- JOHANN HAGEN
- GEORGE HILL
- SIR WILLIAM HUGGINS
- PIERRE JANSSEN
- JAMES kEELER
- JOHANN VON LAMONT
- JONATHAN LANE
- WILLIAM LASSELL
- URBAIN-JEAN-JOSEPH LE VERRIER
- SIR JOSEPH LOCKYER
- PERCIVAL LOWELL
- JOHANN VON MÄDLER
- MARIA MITCHELL
- WILHELM OLBERS
- EDWARD PICKERING
- WILLIAM PICKERING
- LEWIS RUTHERFURD
- SIR EDWARD SABINE
- GIOVANNI SCHIAPARELLI
- ANGELO SECCHI
- FRIEDRICH VON STRUVE
- HERMANN VOGEL
- MAX WOLF
- RUDOLF WOLF
- CHAPTER 8: 20TH-CENTURY ASTRONOMERS
- CHARLES ABBOT
- VIKTOR AMBARTSUMIAN
- HALTON ARP
- PATRICK BLACKETT
- BART BOK
- SIR HERMANN BONDI
- I. S. BOWEN
- DIRK BROUWER
- MARGARET BURBIDGE
- ANNIE JUMP CANNON
- SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR
- ROBERT DICKE
- SIR FRANK DYSON
- WILLIAM FOWLER
- VITALY GINZBURG
- THOMAS GOLD
- STEPHEN W. HAWKING
- OTTO HECKMANN
- EJNAR HERTZSPRUNG
- VICTOR FRANCIS HESS
- ANTONY HEWISH
- RUSSELL HULSE
- SIR JAMES JEANS
- SIR HAROLD SPENCER JONES
- JACOBUS KAPTEYN
- ROY P. KERR
- NIKOLAY ALEKSANDROVICH KOZYREV
- GERARD KUIPER
- BERTIL LINDBLAD
- MALCOLM LONGAIR
- EDWARD MILNE
- MARCEL MINNAERT
- WILLIAM W. MORGAN
- JAN OORT
- ERNEST ÖPIK
- SIR ROGER PENROSE
- SIR MARTIN RYLE
- CARL SAGAN
- MEGHNAD N. SAHA
- ALLAN SANDAGE
- FRANK SCHLESINGER
- MAARTEN SCHMIDT
- KARL SCHWARZSCHILD
- HARLOW SHAPLEY
- WILLEM DE SITTER
- VESTO SLIPHER
- BENGT STRÖMGREN
- OTTO STRUVE
- POL SWINGS
- JOSEPH H. TAYLOR, JR.
- CLYDE W. TOMBAUGH
- ROBERT TRUMPLER
- FRITZ ZWICKY
- GLOSSARY
- FOR FURTHER READING
- INDEX
- BACK COVER
