Ron Miller
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Deep space holds materials left over from the formation of the solar system. Astronomers have been making exciting discoveries on the outermost fringes and the New Horizons spacecraft brings new insights into the origins of the sun and planets"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"This title shows how a group of European scientists, in the span of roughly one hundred and fifty years (early 1500s to the mid-1600s) and working through direct observation, overturned the centuries' old accepted view of a geocentric universe. Through their research and writings, they proposed and described a new order of things in which the Earth orbits the Sun. In so doing, these scientists--Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, Galileo...
4) The zoomable universe: an epic tour through cosmic scale, from almost everything to nearly nothing
Author
Publisher
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English