Countdown!
Or, How Nigh is the End?
Published on 29. September 2009
192 pages
978-0-7524-9669-6 (ISBN)
Description
Written with his trademark combination of wit and accessible science, and updated to include the latest theories on asteroids and climate change, this is a must-read book for anyone with an interest in popular science in general, and how the world might end in particular.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
File size
2,72 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7524-9669-6 (9780752496696)
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09/2009
The History Press Ltd
€32.37
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Person
Sir PATRICK MOORE attained almost legendary status as an astronomer, writer and broadcaster. A former president of the British Astronomical Society and the Society for Popular Astronomy, he presented The Sky at Night on television for over fifty years. The author of more than seventy books on astronomy, he was also an accomplished composer, pianist and xylophonist. He lived in Selsey, West Sussex.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. William Miller - and Others
- 2. The Astrologers
- 3. The Jupiter Effect
- 4. The Menacing Moon
- 5. Comets of Doom
- 6. Cosmic Bullets
- 7. Star-Crash!
- 8. Ordeal by Flying Saucer
- 9. And So to Science
- 10. Aftermath
- 11. 2010
- Plate section
- Copyright
