The Birth of Modern Astronomy [E-Book] / by Harm J. Habing.
This richly illustrated book discusses the ways in which astronomy expanded after 1945 from a modest discipline to a robust and modern science. It begins with an introduction to the state of astronomy in 1945 before recounting how in the following years, initial observations were made in hitherto un...
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Personal Name(s): | Habing, Harm J, author |
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1st ed. 2018. |
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Cham :
Springer,
2018
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Physical Description: |
XLII, 565 pages 407 illustrations, 159 illustrations in color (online resource) |
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englisch |
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9783319990828 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-319-99082-8 |
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Historical & Cultural Astronomy
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- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Prologue
- Part 1: 1945-1985
- Chapter 1: Developments in Instruments
- Chapter 2: Stars and Galaxies
- Chapter 3: Developing New Instruments
- Chapter 4: Stars
- Chapter 5: Galaxies
- Chapter 6: Developments in Instruments
- Chapter 7: Stars
- Chapter 8: Galaxies and the Universe
- Part 2: 1985-2010
- Chapter 9: Plans, People, Organisations and Instruments
- Chapter 10: Main-Sequence Stars and Failed Stars
- Chapter 11: Something Completely New: Exoplanets
- Chapter 12: The Formation of Stars
- Chapter 13: What is Left: Compact Objects
- Chapter 14: Transient Phenomena, Mergers and Explosions
- Chapter 15: Galaxies 1985-1995
- Chapter 16: Galaxies 1995-2005: Another Revolution
- Chapter 17: Harvest Time
- Epilogue
- Index.