Yearbook of Astronomy, 1983
Catastrophes and Comets (World Scientific Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics, v. 3)
by Victor Clube and Bill Napier
Focussing upon the more calamitous cosmic events affecting biological evolution and civilization's advance, this book aims to provide a better understanding of the (paradigm) shift in knowledge and social outlook which is taking place at the present time.The book contends that although m an may choose to believe in a benign cosmos, the real cosmos frequently intrudes and these intrusions have a terminating power extending from civilization to the human species as a whole. We now recognize the ha...
Using a wealth of high-resolution images collected by a fleet of telescopes, satellites and inter-planetary probes, Cosmos Close-up embarks on a voyage across the universe, pausing only to zoom in on the most spectacular planets, stars, galaxies and nebulae. After a fly past of our planetary neighbours we reach the edge of the solar system - a mere 15 light hours away - emerging into interstellar space and heading for the heart of our galaxy. The rhythms of stellar life unfold before our eyes:...
Ideal for children and adults alike, Hubble: The Print Collection showcases some of the most beautiful and dramatic pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. These cosmic images reveal galaxies, nebulae and planets from our Solar System in spectacular detail. Every picture is presented in a large poster which is accompanied by accessible information - including on the birth and death of stars, the dynamics of galaxies and the mysteries of dark matter. Easy to pull out and keep, each individu...
Green's Functions in Classical Physics (Lecture Notes in Physics, #938)
by Tom Rother
This book presents the Green's function formalism in a basic way and demonstrates its usefulness for applications to several well-known problems in classical physics which are usually solved not by this formalism but other approaches. The book bridges the gap between applications of the Green's function formalism in quantum physics and classical physics. This book is written as an introduction for graduate students and researchers who want to become more familiar with the Green's function formal...
Pond an Almanack for the Year of Our Lord God 1685 ... Fitted for the Meridian of Saffron-Walden in Essex. (1685)
by Edward Pond
The 2009 World Forecasts of Milk in Solid Form Containing Up to 1.5% Milkfat Export Supplies
by Philip M. Parker
Byrhtferth's Enchiridion (Early English Text Society Supplementary, #15)
by Byrhtferth of Ramsey
Byrhtferth of Ramsey was one of the outstanding scholars produced by the late Anglo-Saxon church; his principal work, the Enchiridion, completed in the year 1011, is a handbook designed to explain the complexities of medieval date-reckoning - called computus. The Enchiridion includes digressions on metrics, rhetoric, astronomy, and arithmology. Never before adequately edited, this new edition of a neglected late Old English scientific text throws new light on our knowledge of eleventh-century...
The Sun and Its Role in the Heliosphere (Advances in Space Research, Vol 20/1)
The Heliosphere is a large volume of space dominated by the expanding solar atmosphere. Spacecraft at 60 Astronomical Units from the Sun (1 Astronomical Unit = 150 Million Kilometers) have not yet encountered the boundary where the Heliosphere ends and interstellar space begins. This publication contains 22 papers, most observational, some theoretical, on heliospheric topics. Most of the observations reported are either from the recently commissioned SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spa...
Rockets and People, Volume I (NASA History Series. NASA SP-2005-4110)
by Boris Chertok and NASA History Office