Discovery of Our Galaxy
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- Nombre de pages308
- FormatePub
- ISBN978-0-307-81709-9
- EAN9780307817099
- Date de parution06/06/2012
- Protection num.Adobe DRM
- Taille12 Mo
- Infos supplémentairesepub
- ÉditeurKnopf
Résumé
This is a book about the mystery and the passion, the imagination, religion, and poetry, the philosophy, the intellectual flights-and, above all, the people-that have created the science of astronomy, from Thales of Miletus predicting eclipses in the sixth century B. C. to today's scientists probing the cosmic significance of the mysterious "black holes" discovered in 1970. With authority and charm, the distinguished Harvard astronomer Charles A.
Whitney here re-creates the lives and temperaments of the great astronomers and retraces the ingenious arguments, the feats of observation and deduction, and the leaps of intuition by which they have gradually unveiled a picture of the universe and have brought us to an understanding of our own planet's place in it. Among them: KEPLER, searching the solar system for visible evidence of the transcendent order he believed inGALILEO, constructing the first telescope and proposing the concept of universal gravitationNEWTON, paragon of logic, paradoxically driven by an unshakable belief in himself as God's appointed prophet to create a world of mathematical certainty and thus expose the wonder of his Father in HeavenWILLIAM HERSCHEL, the nineteenth-century German who may well be considered the father of modern astronomy, first man to chart the nebulaeEDWIN HUBBLE, in the present century, discovering and exploring galaxies beyond our own Finally, Professor Whitney makes clear for the layman the fascinating problems astronomers wrestle with today: the mysterious nature of quasars, strange cosmic bodies discovered in 1963; the unknown forces behind cataclysmic explosions recently glimpsed in other galaxies; the elusive nature of "interstellar dust"; the eternal question of how it all began.
Whitney here re-creates the lives and temperaments of the great astronomers and retraces the ingenious arguments, the feats of observation and deduction, and the leaps of intuition by which they have gradually unveiled a picture of the universe and have brought us to an understanding of our own planet's place in it. Among them: KEPLER, searching the solar system for visible evidence of the transcendent order he believed inGALILEO, constructing the first telescope and proposing the concept of universal gravitationNEWTON, paragon of logic, paradoxically driven by an unshakable belief in himself as God's appointed prophet to create a world of mathematical certainty and thus expose the wonder of his Father in HeavenWILLIAM HERSCHEL, the nineteenth-century German who may well be considered the father of modern astronomy, first man to chart the nebulaeEDWIN HUBBLE, in the present century, discovering and exploring galaxies beyond our own Finally, Professor Whitney makes clear for the layman the fascinating problems astronomers wrestle with today: the mysterious nature of quasars, strange cosmic bodies discovered in 1963; the unknown forces behind cataclysmic explosions recently glimpsed in other galaxies; the elusive nature of "interstellar dust"; the eternal question of how it all began.
This is a book about the mystery and the passion, the imagination, religion, and poetry, the philosophy, the intellectual flights-and, above all, the people-that have created the science of astronomy, from Thales of Miletus predicting eclipses in the sixth century B. C. to today's scientists probing the cosmic significance of the mysterious "black holes" discovered in 1970. With authority and charm, the distinguished Harvard astronomer Charles A.
Whitney here re-creates the lives and temperaments of the great astronomers and retraces the ingenious arguments, the feats of observation and deduction, and the leaps of intuition by which they have gradually unveiled a picture of the universe and have brought us to an understanding of our own planet's place in it. Among them: KEPLER, searching the solar system for visible evidence of the transcendent order he believed inGALILEO, constructing the first telescope and proposing the concept of universal gravitationNEWTON, paragon of logic, paradoxically driven by an unshakable belief in himself as God's appointed prophet to create a world of mathematical certainty and thus expose the wonder of his Father in HeavenWILLIAM HERSCHEL, the nineteenth-century German who may well be considered the father of modern astronomy, first man to chart the nebulaeEDWIN HUBBLE, in the present century, discovering and exploring galaxies beyond our own Finally, Professor Whitney makes clear for the layman the fascinating problems astronomers wrestle with today: the mysterious nature of quasars, strange cosmic bodies discovered in 1963; the unknown forces behind cataclysmic explosions recently glimpsed in other galaxies; the elusive nature of "interstellar dust"; the eternal question of how it all began.
Whitney here re-creates the lives and temperaments of the great astronomers and retraces the ingenious arguments, the feats of observation and deduction, and the leaps of intuition by which they have gradually unveiled a picture of the universe and have brought us to an understanding of our own planet's place in it. Among them: KEPLER, searching the solar system for visible evidence of the transcendent order he believed inGALILEO, constructing the first telescope and proposing the concept of universal gravitationNEWTON, paragon of logic, paradoxically driven by an unshakable belief in himself as God's appointed prophet to create a world of mathematical certainty and thus expose the wonder of his Father in HeavenWILLIAM HERSCHEL, the nineteenth-century German who may well be considered the father of modern astronomy, first man to chart the nebulaeEDWIN HUBBLE, in the present century, discovering and exploring galaxies beyond our own Finally, Professor Whitney makes clear for the layman the fascinating problems astronomers wrestle with today: the mysterious nature of quasars, strange cosmic bodies discovered in 1963; the unknown forces behind cataclysmic explosions recently glimpsed in other galaxies; the elusive nature of "interstellar dust"; the eternal question of how it all began.