An Explorer's Guide to the Universe Series: The Universe: A Historical Survey of Beliefs, Theories, and Laws

Publisher Britannica Digital Learning

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Britannica Digital Learning

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Copyright

2010

ISBN13

9781615300556

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - 12th Grade

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Overview

The universe has been both a subject of study and supplier of fresh mysteries. This book tackles a topic that is infinitely broad with extreme precision and careful organization, bringing the far reaches of the universe squarely into the hands and minds of readers.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Introduction.
1: In the Beginning.
2: Earliest Conceptions of the Universe.
3: Astronomical Theories of the Ancient Greeks.
4: The Ptolemaic System.
5: The System of Aristotle and Its Impact on Medieval Thought.
6: The Copernican Revolution.
7: Galileo.
8: The Heliocentric System.
9: The Infinite Universe.
10: Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion.
11: Johannes Kepler.
12: Tychonic System.
13: Tycho Brahe.
14: Newton's Impact and 19th-Century Advancements.
15: Newton's Law of Gravitation.
16: Contributions of Edmond Halley.
17: Halley and Newton.
18: Principia.
19: Tracking Comets and Stars.
20: Halley's Comet.
21: The Discoveries of William Herschel.
22: Caroline Herschel.
23: The Herschel Legacy.
24: Taking Astronomy to a New Level.
25: Geodesy.
26: Bessel Functions.
27: Newcomb's Tables and Constants.
28: Perceptions of the 20th Century.
29: Henrietta Swan Leavitt.
30: Shapley's Contributions.
31: The Doppler Effect.
32: Relativistic Cosmologies.
33: Gravitation and the Geometry of Space-Time.
34: Einstein's Model.
35: De Sitter's Model.
36: Friedmann-Lemaître Models.
37: Georges Lemaître.
38: Aleksandr Friedmann.
39: The Einstein–de Sitter Universe.
40: Bound and Unbound Universes and the Closure Density.
41: Hubble's Research on Extragalactic Systems.
42: The Hubble Law.
43: Edwin Hubble.
44: Henry Norris Russell.
45: Sir Arthur Eddington.
46: Expanding Study of the Universe.
47: The Nature of Space and Time.
48: The Hot Big Bang.
49: The Cosmic Microwave Background.
50: Arno Penzias.
51: Robert Woodrow Wilson.
52: Primordial Nucleosynthesis.
53: The Deuterium Abundance.
54: The Very Early Universe.
55: Inhomogeneous Nucleosynthesis.
56: The Cosmic Neutrino Background.
57: Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry.
58: Superunification and the Planck Era.
59: Inflation.
60: Steady State Theory and Other Alternative Cosmologies.
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