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Now in paperback, the story of matter and the history of the cosmos--from the perspective of a single oxygen atom--is told with the insight and wit of one of the most dynamic physicists and writers working today.

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Celestial Encounters is for anyone who has ever wondered about the foundations of chaos. Starting with the story of Henri Poincare's work, Florin Diacu and Philip Holmes trace the history of attempts to solve the problems of celestial mechanics fist posed in Isaac Newton's Principia in 1686.

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From award-winning science writer Barry Parker, the only book to consider chaos theory in all areas of astronomy.

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The essays in this volume deal both with the influences on Copernicus, including that of Greek and Arabic thinkers, and with his own life and attitudes. It also examines how he was seen by contemporaries and describes his relationship to other scientists, including Galileo, Brahe and Kepler.

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What should the average person know about science This volume introduces readers to various aspects that make cosmology such a vibrant and dynamic field, and explains how scientists came to know what they know about the universe.

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Cosmology and Controversy presents the development of scientific cosmology for the first time as a historical event, one that embroiled many scientists in a controversy over the very notion of an evolving universe with a beginning in time.

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Do there exist Lorentzian manifolds all of whose light-like geodesics are periodic A surprising fact is that such manifolds exist in abundance in (2 + 1)-dimensions (though in higher dimensions they are quite rare). This book deals with the deformation theory of M2,1 (which furnishes almost all the known examples of these objects).

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A guide to the myriad possibilities for cosmic apocalypse.

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An accessible overview of the evolution and development of our universe- from the Big Bang to cosmic strings.

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Reveals the interconnectedness of the solar system - and what it means for life on Earth. Relating a history of the solar system, this work describes how astronomers determined our location in the Milky Way. It provides accounts of the energetic interactions among planetary bodies, the generation of the Earth's magnetic field, and more.

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Launched in 2001, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) reported its results two years later with a set of observations that added focus, detail, and insight to our fuzzy view of the cosmos. This work tells the story of WMAP and its revelations. It is both a personal and a scientific tale of discovery.

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The idea that the speed of light is a constant - at 186,000 miles per second - is one of the few scientific facts that almost everyone knows.

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How might the anthropological study of cosmologies illuminate understandings of the contemporary world This book addresses this question by bringing together anthropologists whose research is informed by a concern with cosmological dimensions of social life in different ethnographic settings -- .

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Covers the phenomenology of external galaxies, star clusters in the Milky Way, the interstellar media of external galaxies, gas in the Milky Way, the structure and kinematics of the stellar components of the Milky Way, and the kinematics of external galaxies. This book is intended for professionals, as well as for students.

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In the "Introduction to the Phenomena", Geminos provided a clear view of Greek astronomy in the period between Hipparchos and Ptolemy. This book, an English translation of Geminos' work, is accompanied by an introduction and commentary that set Geminos' work in its historical, scientific, and philosophical context.

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Geared toward students, this guide provides an overview of the small bodies that orbit the sun.

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An expert in planetary sciences offers an accessible synopsis of scientific knowledge about the celestial bodies with which we are most familiarMercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.

This volume in the Greenwood Guides to the Universe series covers the inner planetsMercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.

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