Atlas Of Astronomical Discoveries

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Four hundred years ago in Middelburg, in the Netherlands, the telescope was invented. The invention unleashed a revolution in the exploration of the universe. Galileo Galilei discovered mountains on the Moon, spots on the Sun, and moons around Jupiter. Christiaan Huygens saw details on Mars and rings around Saturn. William Herschel discovered a new planet and mapped binary stars and nebulae. Other astronomers determined the distances to stars, unraveled the structure of the Milky Way, and discovered the expansion of the universe. And, as telescopes became bigger and more powerful, astronomers delved deeper into the mysteries of the cosmos. In his Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries, astronomy journalist Govert Schilling tells the story of 400 years of telescopic astronomy. He looks at the 100 most important discoveries since the invention of the telescope.

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E-Book Information

• Year: 2,011

• Edition: 1

• Pages: 234

• Pages In File: 244

• Language: English

• Topic: 265

• Issue: до 2011-08

• Identifier: 1441978100,9781441978103

• Doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7811-0

• Paginated: 1

• Org File Size: 98,120,917

• Extension: pdf

• Tags: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology Popular Science in Astronomy

• Toc: Front Matter....Pages i-ix1608 - 1708 The Dawn of Astronomy New Vistas and Cosmic Laws....Pages 1-321708 - 1808 Swarms of Stars on a Three-Dimensional Stage....Pages 33-521808 - 1908 Paving the Way for Major Theoretical Breakthroughs....Pages 53-881908 - 1958 A Speck of Cosmic Dust in an Evolving Cosmos....Pages 89-1341958 - 2008 Revolutionary Discoveries in a Mysterious Universe....Pages 135-226Back Matter....Pages 227-234