A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts Volume I: The Heavens and The Earth /

This book provides a chronological introduction to the sciences of astronomy and cosmology based on the reading and analysis of significant selections from classic texts, such as Ptolemy’s Almagest, Kepler’s Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, Shapley’s Galaxies, and Lemaître’s The Primeval Atom. Each...

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Main Author: Kuehn, Kerry. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1360-2