Bibliograph

Revolutionaries of the cosmos, the astro-physicists, I.S. Glass

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Revolutionaries of the cosmos, the astro-physicists, I.S. Glass

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Revolutionaries of the cosmos

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

62307288

Responsibility statement

I.S. Glass

Review

"Galileo, Newton, Herschel, Huggins, Hale, Eddington, Shapley, and Hubble: these astronomers applied ideas drawn from physics to astronomy and made dramatic changes to the world-pictures that they inherited. They showed that celestial objects are composed of the same materials as the earth and that they behave in the same way. They displaced successively the earth, the sun, and finally the milky way galaxy from being the centre of the universe. This book contains their biographies and outlines their greatest discoveries."--Jacket

Sub title

the astro-physicists

Table Of Contents

Introduction: talent and opportunity -- Galileo: seeing and believing -- Isaac Newton: rationalising the universe -- William Herschel: surveying the heavens -- William Huggins: celestial chemical analysis -- George Ellery Hale: providing the tools -- Arthur Eddington: inside the stars -- Harlow Shapley: defining our galaxy -- Edwin Hubble: journeying to the edge

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