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Imago Cosmi [E-Book] : The Vision of the Cosmos and the History of Astronomical Machines /
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The True Story of Modern Cosmology [E-Book] : Origins, Main Actors and Breakthroughs /
Table of Contents: ...Introduction -- What is a Scientific Theory? -- The First Cosmological Revolution of the 20th Century -- The Theory of General Relativity and Its Main Solutions -- The Hubble-Lemaître Law and the Universe Expansion -- The Big Bang Theory -- Towards...

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Stratospheric Balloons [E-Book] : Science and Commerce at the Edge of Space /
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Expanding Worldviews: Astrobiology, Big History and Cosmic Perspectives [E-Book] /
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Our Place in the Universe - II [E-Book] : The Scientific Approach to Discovery /
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Astronomy of the Inca Empire [E-Book] : Use and Significance of the Sun and the Night Sky /
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Descriptive Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Indian Chronology [E-Book] /
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Space, Time, and Aliens [E-Book] : Collected Works on Cosmos and Culture /
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Jayme Tiomno [E-Book] : A Life for Science, a Life for Brazil /
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Thinking About Space and Time [E-Book] : 100 Years of Applying and Interpreting General Relativity /
Table of Contents: ...Introduction -- Space and Time 62 Years After the Berne Conference -- Einstein's Conflicting Heuristics: The Discovery of General Relativity -- Historical and Philosophical Aspects of the Einstein World -- Stability in Cosmology, from Einstein...

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History of the Plurality of Worlds [E-Book] : The Myths of Extraterrestrials Through the Ages /
Table of Contents: ...1. Introduction: Myth or fact/reality -- 2. From Anaximander to Lucretius: Plurality from chance -- 3. Pythagoras, Plato and Ptolemy: Unicity by design -- 4. Plutarch's De Facie: The Moon is another Earth -- 5. Patristic cosmology confirms the single...

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The Renaissance of General Relativity in Context [E-Book] /
Table of Contents: ... Dispute: An Illustration of the Renaissance of General Relativity in the Soviet Union -- Tokyo Wheeler or the Epistemic Preconditions of the Renaissance of Relativity -- Cosmological Constant A vs. Massive Gravitons: A Case Study in General Relativity...

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Star Maps [E-Book] : History, Artistry, and Cartography /
Table of Contents: ...Preface to Third Edition -- Foreword to First Edition -- Preface to First Edition -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of abbreviations and acronyms -- Chapter 1: What is a star map? -- Chapter 2: Non-European cosmology...

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Galileo Galilei [E-Book] : At the Threshold of the Scientific Age /
Table of Contents: ...Introduction -- Time and Space -- Early Years (1564-1588) -- Padova -- Florence -- Cosmological Excursion -- Florence revisited -- Final Years -- Conclusions. ....

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Wacky and Wonderful Misconceptions About Our Universe [E-Book] /
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The Vatican Observatory, Castel Gandolfo: 80th Anniversary Celebration [E-Book] /
Table of Contents: ...) The Stellar Haloes of Galaxies (Richard De Souza).- Cosmology.- 9) A String Theory Based f(R)-Gravity with Duality Transformations (Gabriele Gionti) -- 10) Creation of Matter in a Noncommutativ e Universe (Michael Heller) -- 11) Testing new physics with polarized...

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The Power of Stars [E-Book] /
Table of Contents: ... Timekeeping and the Development of the Science of Time, Celestial Architecture: Monuments of the Sky -- The Archaeoastronomy of Modern Civilization -- The Development of Modern Cosmology -- Concluding Thoughts....

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Four Pillars of Radio Astronomy: Mills, Christiansen, Wild, Bracewell [E-Book] /
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The Great Canoes in the Sky [E-Book] : Starlore and Astronomy of the South Pacific /
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The Muleskinner and the Stars [E-Book] : The Life and Times of Milton La Salle Humason, Astronomer /