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Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space by Asimov Isaac
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Asimov, Isaac [Asimov, Isaac]

55. ARE THERE PLANETS THE ANCIENTS DIDN’T KNOW? The asteroids, which I have already described, may be tiny, but they are planets circling the sun, and no one knew of ...
( Category: Astronomy January 1,2015 )
A More Perfect Heaven-How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos by Dava Sobel
mobi |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Dava Sobel

ANNA enters. ANNA. His clothes are dry. RHETICUS. (to COPERNICUS) Let me help you. ANNA. Everything’s ready. It’s time now. COPERNICUS. Thank you, Anna. You can just leave those here. ...
( Category: Astronomy December 19,2014 )
The Breast by Philip Roth
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Philip Roth [Roth, Philip]

SOMETIME BETWEEN the first and the second of the two major “crises” I have survived so far here in the hospital—if hospital it is—I was visited by Arthur Schonbrunn, Dean ...
( Category: Astronomy November 21,2014 )
The Science of Discworld 3 - Darwin's Watch
mobi |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen

I'HE SCIENCE OF DISCWORLD It also indulged in wholesale theft of a virus's genome, to stop mother's immune system booting out baby because it `smelled' of father. And we also ...
( Category: Astronomy November 19,2014 )
A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-07 | Author:Bill Bryson

So what accounts for all this wondrous complexity? Well, one possibility is that perhaps it isn’t quite-not quite-so wondrous as at first it seems. Take those amazingly improbable proteins. The ...
( Category: Astronomy November 11,2014 )
The grand design by Stephen Hawking; Leonard Mlodinow
mobi |eng | 2010-10-08 | Author:Stephen Hawking; Leonard Mlodinow

Due to the work of Einstein, physicists realized that by demanding that the speed of light be the same in all frames of reference, Maxwell’s theory of electricity and magnetism ...
( Category: Cosmology November 11,2014 )
Starlight Detectives by Alan Hirshfeld
epub |eng | | Author:Alan Hirshfeld [Hirshfeld, Alan]

While astronomers were engaged in the Dopplerian debate over star colors, a little-known conjecture wafted in the background. In December 1848, French physicist Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau delivered a lecture at the ...
( Category: Astronomy November 7,2014 )
Leibniz, Newton und die Erfindung der Zeit (German Edition) by Padova Thomas de
epub |deu | 2013-09-16 | Author:Padova, Thomas de [Padova, Thomas de]

Ein kreisendes Pendel als Weltmodell Das Trägheitsgesetz zählt zu jenen drei Annahmen, auf denen Hooke sein »Weltsystem« aufbaut. Bereits im Mai 1666 erläutert er den Mitgliedern der Royal Society, er ...
( Category: Astronomy November 6,2014 )
Grand Design, The
epub | | | Author:Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow

( Category: Cosmology October 31,2014 )
The Night Sky, Updated and Expanded Edition by Richard Grossinger
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Richard Grossinger [Grossinger, Richard]

In the traditional occult, Venus is the goddess of love and ripeness, tranquility and charity. She represents the ardor within nature to grow and spread, dispatching fields of wild plants ...
( Category: Cultural October 27,2014 )
Case for Mars by Robert Zubrin
epub |eng | 1995-12-31 | Author:Robert Zubrin [Zubrin, Robert]

* * * FOCUS SECTION—A CALENDAR FOR THE PLANET MARS Martian colonists will need a calendar that is tied to physical and seasonal conditions on the Red Planet—using Earth dates ...
( Category: Astronomy October 27,2014 )
Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial? by Guy Consolmagno SJ Paul Mueller SJ
epub |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Guy Consolmagno, SJ,Paul Mueller, SJ [Consolmagno, Guy]

GALILEAN ENTANGLEMENT PAUL: There’s something fundamental about the Galileo story, however, that I’d like to develop more. The Galileo Affair shows what can go wrong when philosophy, politics, and personalities ...
( Category: Science & Religion October 27,2014 )
The New York Times Book of Physics and Astronomy by Dean Cornelia
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-05 | Author:Dean, Cornelia [Dean, Cornelia]

Study of Deformations Only when the plate is illuminated by a beam passing through that same sheet of ground glass (or its twin), positioned precisely as before, are the light ...
( Category: Astronomy October 8,2014 )
The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality by Richard Panek
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Richard Panek [Panek, Richard]

8. Hello, Lambda ON JANUARY 8, 1998, four astronomers sat at a table at the front of a conference room at the Washington Hilton to deliver the verdict of science. ...
( Category: Cosmology October 1,2014 )
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality (Penguin Press Science) by Greene Brian
mobi |eng | 2005-02-23 | Author:Greene, Brian [Greene, Brian]

11 Quanta in the Sky with Diamonds INFLATION. QUANTUM JITTERS. AND THE ARROW OF TIME The discovery of the inflationary framework launched a new era in cosmological research, and in ...
( Category: Cosmology September 29,2014 )

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