Conceptual astronomy : a journey of ideas

著者

• Zeilik, Michael

書誌事項

Conceptual astronomy : a journey of ideas

Michael Zeilik

Wiley, c1993

• pbk:

注記

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This volume provides a conceptual approach to the study of astronomy which emphasizes scientific model-making. Concepts are developed slowly from the concrete to the abstract, resulting in a traditional Earth-to-the-universe organization.

目次

• Concepts of the Solar System: Motions in the Solar System
• The Puzzle of the Planets
• Gravitation and the Solar System
• The Earth: A Model Planet
• Mars and Venus: Earthlike Worlds
• The Moon and Mercury: Fossil Worlds
• Jovian Planets and Moons: Alien Worlds
• Debris and Origin
• Concepts of Stellar Evolution: Celestial Light
• The Sun: A Model Star
• The Stars as Suns
• Starbirth
• Star Lives
• Star Deaths
• Concepts of Cosmology: The Milky Way: A Model Galaxy
• Normal Galaxies
• Active Galaxies and Quasars
• The Cosmos: Past and Future
• Life in the Cosmos.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA20078773
• ISBN:
  • 0471509965
• LCCN: 92036354
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: 1 v.
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : QB45
  • DC20 : 520
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Astronomy