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"In association with Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum"--Dust jacket. Includes index.
The Classical Universe -- Ancient Cosmologies -- East Asian Cosmologies -- Cosmologies of the Americas -- Africa's Moral Universe -- Star Maps: A Confluence of Art and Astronomy -- The Great copernicus chase -- The Modern Universe emerges -- From Newton's Universe of stars to Herchel's Nebulae -- From Hubble to Hubble -- What is the Universe made of? -- The Current universe -- Learning from the past; Historical Supernovae -- The Large - Scale Struture of the Universe -- why does an Optical Astronomer study something She cannot see? -- Three Dimensional Mapping of the Dark Universe -- Detecting the Signature of the Big Bang -- The Big Bang and Its Fireball -- Afterword: Come! Explore the Universe .
Booklist, May 2002
Some of the most prominent cosmologists share their explorations of the universe and recount their favorite stories about their quest to know the planets and stars.
Adult$b Follett Library Resources