The Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life [E-Book] : The Search for Our Cosmic Roots / by Pekka Teerikorpi, Mauri Valtonen, Kirsi Lehto, Harry Lehto, Gene Byrd, Arthur Chernin.
Regarding his discoveries, Sir Isaac Newton famously said, "If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." The Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life describes, complete with fascinating biographical details of the thinkers involved, a history of the universe as...
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Personal Name(s): | Teerikorpi, Pekka, author |
Byrd, Gene, author / Chernin, Arthur, author / Lehto, Harry, author / Lehto, Kirsi, author / Valtonen, Mauri, author | |
Edition: |
2nd edition 2019. |
Imprint: |
Cham :
Springer,
2019
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Physical Description: |
XIX, 584 pages 258 illustrations, 34 illustrations in color (online resource) |
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englisch |
ISBN: |
9783030179212 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-030-17921-2 |
Subject (LOC): |
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Part 1: The Widening World View
- When Science Was Born
- Science in Athens
- Planetary Spheres and the Size of the Universe
- Medieval Cosmology
- The Roots of the Copernican Revolution
- The True Laws of Planetary Motion Revealed
- Galileo Galilei and His Successors
- How Far Away Are the Stars?
- The Scale of the Solar System
- Part 2: Physical Laws of Nature
- Newton
- Celestial Mechanics
- Nature of Light
- Electricity and Magnetism
- Time and Space
- Curved Space and Gravity
- Atoms and Nuclei
- Strange Microworld
- Elementary Particles
- Part 3: The Universe
- Stars: Cosmic Fusion Reactors
- The Riddle of the Milky Way
- Entering the Galaxy Universe
- Large-scale Structure of the Universe
- Finite or Infinite Universe: Cosmological Models
- When it all Began: Big Bang
- The Dark Side of the Universe
- Active Galaxies: Messages Through Radio Waves
- Origin of Galaxies
- Part 4: Life in the Universe
- The Nature of Life
- The Origin of Earth and its Moon
- Emergence and Evolution of Life
- Life and our Solar System
- Extrasolar Planetary Systems and Life in other Solar Systems
- Human's Role in the Universe
- Recommended Reading
- Index.