English | 2020 | ISBN: 110718620X | 633 Pages | PDF | 19 MB How do planetary scientists analyze and interpret data from laboratory, telescopic, and spacecraft observations of planetary surfaces? What elements, minerals, and volatiles are found on the surfaces of our Solar System’s planets, moons, asteroids,...

English | May 13, 1943 | ISBN: 048644273X | 336 Pages | PDF | 26 MB In this classic text, a Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist presents the theory of stellar dynamics as a branch of classical dynamics-a discipline in the same general category as celestial mechanics. His method offers...

ISBN: 0745980317 | 2018 | EPUB | 576 Pages | 31 MB This book will take the story of astronomy on from where Allan Chapman left it in Stargazers, and bring it almost up to date, with the developments and discoveries of the last three centuries. He covers...

2018 | ISBN: 0763694894 | English | 176 Pages | EPUB | 40 MB A nation in need of hope, the most powerful rocket ever launched, and the first three men to break the bounds of Earth: Apollo 8 was headed to the moon. In 1957, when the...

English | 2017 | ISBN: 1107048222 | 344 Pages | PDF | 8 MB Relativistic kinetic theory has widespread application in astrophysics and cosmology. The interest has grown in recent years as experimentalists are now able to make reliable measurements on physical systems where relativistic effects are no...

English | January 9th, 2020 | ISBN: 1781259631 | 336 Pages | EPUB | 20.41 MB ‘A delightful and utterly fascinating work of intellectual history.’ Joshua Foer author of Moonwalking with Einstein Despite a resurgence in popularity, horoscopes are generally considered to be pseudoscience today – but they...

2019 | ISBN: 0822945525 | English | 312 Pages | PDF | 11 MB Mass media in the late nineteenth century was full of news from Mars. In the wake of Giovanni Schiaparelli’s 1877 discovery of enigmatic dark, straight lines on the red planet, astronomers and the public...

English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | 169 Pages | PDF | 28 MB On a dark, clear night, a magnificent band of hazy light arches overhead that ancient Greeks likened to a trail of milk spilled across the sky. It is the Milky Way, the galaxy where...

1996 | 193 Pages | ISBN: 041514809X | PDF | 4 MB Based on his famous final year undergraduate lectures on theoretical physics at Birkbeck College, Bohm presents the theory of relativity as a unified whole, making clear the reasons which led to its adoption and explaining its...