SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE: how we discovered the cosmos 9780500251553, 9780500295199, 9780500775318, 9780500775325, 1708172777, 050025155X, 0500295190

Discoveries in astronomy challenge our fundamental ideas about the universe. Where the astronomers of antiquity once spo

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Table of contents :
Introduction * Discoveries Before the Telescope * Discoveries in the Solar System Discoveries of the Dynamic Universe * Discoveries of Our Galaxy and Its Stars * Discoveries of the Universe and Its Galaxies Future Discoveries

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