Exploring the Universe

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EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE
by ROY A. GALLANT illustrated by Lowell Hess
Try to imagine the edge of space or the limits of the sky above you. Can the vastness of the universe be pierced by human understanding? Modern scientists with their telescopes and spectroscopes can penetrate outer space and in so doing can bring it closer to the realms of human knowledge.
This was not always true. In Exploring the Univebse, Roy A. Gallant traces the history of the study of the heavens. He tells of the time, long ago, when celestial occurances such as solar eclipses or shooting stars were believed to have been caused by magicians and astrologers. Actually all these men did was to predict what would happen — they never asked why it did happen.
In this outstanding and widely acclaimed book written for the young astronomer, and amply illustrated with the informative drawings and charts of Lowell Hess, we learn what the scientists believe were the origins of the stars, the sun and the... Tovább

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EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE
by ROY A. GALLANT illustrated by Lowell Hess
Try to imagine the edge of space or the limits of the sky above you. Can the vastness of the universe be pierced by human understanding? Modern scientists with their telescopes and spectroscopes can penetrate outer space and in so doing can bring it closer to the realms of human knowledge.
This was not always true. In Exploring the Univebse, Roy A. Gallant traces the history of the study of the heavens. He tells of the time, long ago, when celestial occurances such as solar eclipses or shooting stars were believed to have been caused by magicians and astrologers. Actually all these men did was to predict what would happen — they never asked why it did happen.
In this outstanding and widely acclaimed book written for the young astronomer, and amply illustrated with the informative drawings and charts of Lowell Hess, we learn what the scientists believe were the origins of the stars, the sun and the planets; we learn of galaxies, globular clusters, R. R. Lycrae Variable Stars, light years, the birth and death of stars, and of the island universes in the heavens. The mysteries of the night and the stars become as clear as the bright sun of the day.
Explomng the Universe was the 1956 Thomas Alva Edison Foundation Award winning book for the best young people's science book of the year. Vissza