Stamping Through Astronomy [E-Book] / by Renato Dicati.
Stamps and other postal documents are an attractive vehicle for presenting astronomy and its development. Written with expertise and great enthusiasm, this unique book offers a historical and philatelic survey of astronomy and some related topics on space exploration. It contains more than 1300 colo...
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| Personal Name(s): | Dicati, Renato, author |
| Edition: |
1st ed. 2013. |
| Imprint: |
Milano :
Springer,
2013
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| Physical Description: |
XI, 373 pages 277 illustrations in color (online resource) |
| Note: |
englisch |
| ISBN: |
9788847028296 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-88-470-2829-6 |
| Subject (LOC): |
- 1 The origins of Astronomy
- 2 The ancients' Astronomy
- 3 Medieval Astronomy
- 4 The revival of Astronomy and the Copernican revolution
- 5 Galileo and the new views of the sky
- 6 The Mechanical Universe
- 7 The development of instrumentation
- 8 Observations and discoveries in the Solar System
- 9 The advent of Astrophysics
- 10 The discovery of the Universe
- 11 The new astronomies. .