Publication Date: January 21, 2020
Publisher: D.K.
Format: Audible Audio
Authors: D.K. Publishing, Thomas Judd, Charles II of England, Clyde Tombaugh, John Flamsteed, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Albert Einstein, Percival Lowell, Ibu al-Haytham, Gerard of Cremona, Aryabhata, Anaximander, Eudoxus, Empedocles, Heraclides, Thomas Aquinus, Friedrich Bessel, Philolalus, Aristarchus of Samos, Thomas Little Heath, Yu Xi, Timocharis, Shen Kuo, Jing Fang, Christopher Columbus, Helaine Selin, Léon Foucault, al-Sijzi, Heraclides Ponticus, Edwin Powell Hubble, Vesto Slipher, Democritus, Pope Gregory I, Emperor Wu, Gaius Julius Caesar, Wang Chun, Liu Bingzhong, Kublai Khan, Guo Shoujing, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Hipparchus, Shah Rukh, Ulugh Beg, Thomas Digges, Edmond Halley, al-Sufi, Theon of Smyrna, Ptolemy, Jeremiah Horrocks, Ole Romer, Christiaan Huygens, Hans Lippershey, Johannes Kepler, Chester Moore Hall, John Dolland, James Bradley, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Isaac Newton, Bernhard Walther, Galileo Gallei, Aristotle, Thaddaeus Hagecius, Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Fred Adams, John Couch Adams, Walter Adams, al-Battani, Buzz Aldrin, Giovanni Alfonso, Ralph Alpher, Luis Alvarez, Victor Ambartsumian, Bill Anders, Carl Anderson, Petrus Apianus, Neil Armstrong, Halton Arp, Erik Asphaug, Francis Aston, Robert Atkinson, Walter Baade, Horace Babcock, Donald Backer, John Babcall, Solon Bailey, Edward Barnard, Daniel Moreau Barringer, Henri Becquerel, Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Friedrich Bessell, Hans Bethe, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Niels Bohr, Bart Bok, Tom Bolton, Hermann Bondi, Frank Borman, Jacques-Louis de Bournon, Alexis Bouvard, Ira Bowen, Robert Boyle, Giordano Bruno, Bill Bryson, Robert Bunsen, Venetia Burney, Annie Jump Cannon, Richard Carrington, Brandon Carter, Henry Cavendish, Vincenzo Cerulli, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Ernst Chladni, Giuseppe Cocconi, Bernard I. Cohen, Clyde Cowan, William Crabtree, Heber Doust Curtis, Reginald Daly, William Dampier, Heinrich D'Arrest, George Darwin, Ray Davis, Robert H. Dicke, Christian Doppler, Frank Drake, John Draper, Mary Draper, Kenneth Edgeworth, Harold Ewen, Richard Fisher, Willamina Fleming, Albert E. Foote, Kent Ford, Ralph Fowler, Herbert Friedman, Alexander Friedman, Johann Galle, Andrea Mia Ghez, Riccardo Giacconi, Grove Gilbert, William Gilbert, John Glenn, Thomas Gold, Jesse Greenstein, Virgil Grisson, John Grunsfield, Herb Gush, Alan Guth, George Ellery Hale, Edmond Hailey, Karl Harding, Thomas Harriot, John Harrison, William Hartmann, Herman von Helmholz, Thomas Henderson, Robert Herman, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz, Victor Hess, Elisabetha Hevelius, Antony Hewish, Arthur Holmes, Robert Hooke, Fritz Houtermans, Edward Howard, Fred Hoyle, John Huchra, Margaret Huggins, William Huggins, Russell Hulse, Milton Humason, James Webb, Karl Jansky, Jules Janssen, Sacharias Janssen, James Jeans, David Jewitt, Martin Jutzi, Immanuel Kant, Philip Keenan, Edith Kellman, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Roy Kerr, Gustav Kirchhoff, Sergei Korolev, Charles Kowal, Gene Kranz, Gerard Kuiper, Shiv Kumar, Jérôme Lalande, Robert Leighton, Frederick C. Leonard, Alexei Leonov, Armin O. Leuschner, Various
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An essential guide to milestone developments in astronomy, telling the story of our ideas about space, time, and the physics of the cosmos - from ancient times to the present day.
From planets and stars to black holes and the Big Bang, take a journey through the wonders of the universe. Featuring topics from the Copernican Revolution to the mind-boggling theories of recent science, 'THE ASTRONOMY BOOK' uses flowcharts, graphics, and illustrations to help clarify hard-to-grasp concepts and explain almost 100 big astronomical ideas. Covering the biographies of key astronomers through the ages such as Ptolemy, Galileo, Newton, Hubble, and Hawking, 'THE ASTRONOMY BOOK' details their theories and discoveries in a user-friendly format to make the information accessible and easy to follow.
RUNNING TIME ⇒ 14hrs. and 38mins.
©2017 Dorling Kindersley Ltd (P)2020 D.K. Audio
