The Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life
The Search for Our Cosmic Roots
(Sprache: Englisch)
This history of science analyzes how we came to be. It starts with life's origins and tracks the universe to present day, covering astronomy, physics, chemistry and biology and offering biographical details of science's greatest thinkers.
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This history of science analyzes how we came to be. It starts with life's origins and tracks the universe to present day, covering astronomy, physics, chemistry and biology and offering biographical details of science's greatest thinkers.
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Sir Isaac Newton famously said, regarding his discoveries, "If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life “
The Widening World View.- When Science Was Born.- Science in Athens.- Planetary Spheres and the Size of the Universe.- Medieval Cosmology.- The Roots of the Copernican Revolution.- The True Laws of Planetary Motion Revealed.- Galileo Galilei and His Successors.- How Far Away Are the Stars?.- The Scale of the Solar System.- Physical Laws of Nature.- Newton.- Celestial Mechanics.- Nature of Light.- Electricity and Magnetism.- Time and Space.- Curved Space and Gravity.- Atoms and Nuclei.- Strange Microworld.- Elementary Particles.- The Universe.- Stars: Cosmic Fusion Reactors.- The Riddle of the Milky Way.- Entering the Galaxy Universe.- Large-scale Structure of the Universe.- Finite or Infinite Universe: Cosmological Models.- When it all Began: Big Bang.- The Dark Side of the Universe.- Active Galaxies: Messages Through Radio Waves.- Origin of Galaxies.- Life in the Universe.- The Nature of Life.- The Origin of Earth and its Moon.- Emergence and Evolution of Life.- Life and our Solar System.- Extrasolar Planetary Systems and Life in other Solar Systems.- Human's Role in the Universe.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Pekka Teerikorpi , Mauri Valtonen , Harry Lehto , Arthur D. Chernin , K. Lehto , Gene Byrd
- 2009, 2009 ed., XVII, 522 Seiten, Maße: 16,4 x 24,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- By Pekka Teerikorpi, Mauri Valtonen, Harry Lehto et al.
- Verlag: Springer
- ISBN-10: 0387095330
- ISBN-13: 9780387095332
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.12.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
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