Popular Astronomy

Name: Popular Astronomy
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108037730
Price: 10100 KES
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ISBN: 9781108037730

by Simon Newcomb

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy

ISBN-10 1108037739

ISBN-13 9781108037730

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 24th, 2011

Print length 598 Pages

Weight 776 grams

Dimensions 13.90 x 21.70 x 3.80 cms

Product Classification: Popular astronomy & space Popular astronomy and space

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Originally published in 1878, this book was intended as a guide for the non-specialist to the history of astronomy and its latest advances. Simon Newcomb (1835–1909) offers the most recent theories and speculations from one of the fastest-moving periods of discovery in pre-Einsteinian astronomy.

Furnished with more than a hundred figures, maps and tables, this book was first published in 1878 by Simon Newcomb (1835–1909), a noted mathematician and professor at the United States Naval Observatory. A meticulous work, originally intended to be of use to the general reader as well as the student, it provides a view of astronomy as it stood on the eve of General Relativity, and inevitably includes some theories which have since been disproved. Newcomb outlines a brief history of astronomy, from ancient Greece (when the planets were thought to be fixed in crystal spheres), to the application of the new laws of thermodynamics and the latest observations of the solar system. Included are a rejection of the then prevalent theory that the sun has a cool interior and its own inhabitants, details of the anomaly of Mercury's orbit according to Newtonian theory, and thorough observational guides.

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