【预订】America’s First Eclipse Chasers 9783031241239
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/ 2023-04-09
Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9783031241239 Author 作者 Thomas Hockey Format 版本 平装-胶订 Pages Number 页数 402页 Publisher 出版社 Springer Berlin Heidelberg Publication Date 出版日期 2023-04-09 Language 语种 其它(含多语) Book Contents 内容简介 In 2017, over 200 million Americans witnessed the spectacular total eclipse of the Sun, and the 2024 eclipse is expected to draw even larger crowds. In anticipation of this upcoming event, this book takes us back in history over 150 years, telling the story of the nation’s first ever eclipse chasers.Our tale follows the chaotic journeys of scientists and amateur astronomers as they trekked across the western United States to view the rare phenomenon of a total solar eclipse. The fascinating story centers on the expeditions of the 1869 total eclipse, which took place during the turbulent age of the chimerical Planet Vulcan and Civil War Reconstr
¥290.00
【预订】How We See the Sky 9780226345772
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/ 2011-10-15
Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780226345772 Author 作者 Hockey Format 版本 平装-胶订 Pages Number 页数 224页 Publisher 出版社 University of Chicago Press Publication Date 出版日期 2011-10-15 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 Shipping Weight 商品重量 0.80 Language 语种 其它(含多语) Book Contents 内容简介 Gazing up at the heavens from our backyards or a nearby field, most of us see an undifferentiated mess of stars—if, that is, we can see anything at all through the glow of light pollution. Today’s casual observer knows far less about the sky than did our ancestors, who depended on the sun and the moon to tell them the time and on the stars to guide them through the seas. Nowadays, we don’t need the sky, which is good, because we’ve made it far less accessible, hiding it behind the skyscrapers and the excessive artificial light of our cities. How
¥168.00
【预订】Solar System 9780367768690
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/ 2021-08-20
Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780367768690 Author 作者 Thomas Hockey Format 版本 平装-胶订 Pages Number 页数 352页 Publisher 出版社 CRC Press Publication Date 出版日期 2021-08-20 Language 语种 其它(含多语) Book Contents 内容简介 Combining the latest astronomical results with a historical perspective, Solar System: Between Fire and Ice takes you on a fabulous tour of our intriguing Solar System. Not content with a conventional discourse restricted to the major and minor bodies, astronomers Hockey, Bartlett, and Boice venture beyond the limits of our system to look at exoplanets and to consider future trends in space exploration and tourism. They discuss not only what scientists know about planets, asteroids, and comets but how the discoveries were made. With extensive teaching experience, their accessible prose clearly explains essential physical concepts. Lavishly illustrated as well as
¥446.00
【预订】Galileo’s Planet 9780750304481
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/ 1998-01-01
Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780750304481 Author 作者 Thomas A Hockey Format 版本 精装 Pages Number 页数 236页 Publisher 出版社 CRC Press Publication Date 出版日期 1998-01-01 Shipping Weight 商品重量 556g Language 语种 英语 Book Contents 内容简介 Galileo’s Planet: Observing Jupiter before Photography presents the history of humankind’s quest to understand the giant planet in the era before photography, a time when the only way to observe the universe was with the human eye. The book provides a comprehensive and fascinating account of the people involved in this quest, their observations, and the results of their findings. Many of the planetary features studied in detail by today’s space probes were once glimpsed by keen-eyed, amateur astronomers. The book recounts their story from the earliest times right up until the invention of the camera.
¥1791
【预订】Solar System 9781032054377
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/ 2021-08-20
Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9781032054377 Author 作者 Thomas Hockey Format 版本 精装 Pages Number 页数 352页 Publisher 出版社 CRC Press Publication Date 出版日期 2021-08-20 Language 语种 其它(含多语) Book Contents 内容简介 Combining the latest astronomical results with a historical perspective, Solar System: Between Fire and Ice takes you on a fabulous tour of our intriguing Solar System. Not content with a conventional discourse restricted to the major and minor bodies, astronomers Hockey, Bartlett, and Boice venture beyond the limits of our system to look at exoplanets and to consider future trends in space exploration and tourism. They discuss not only what scientists know about planets, asteroids, and comets but how the discoveries were made. With extensive teaching experience, their accessible prose clearly explains essential physical concepts. Lavishly illustrated as well as careful
¥1176
【预订】Birds of Southern Africa: The Region's Most Comprehensiv
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/ 2011-11-13
¥293.22