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Geographies of Mars Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet
ISBN: HB: 9780226470788, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings, 39 halftones
One of the first maps of Mars, published by an Italian astronomer in 1877, with its pattern of canals, fueled belief in intelligent life forms on the distant red planet – a hope that continued into the 1960s. Although the Martian canals have long sin...
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£47,00
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On Sunspots
ISBN: PB: 9780226707167, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
410 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 108 halftones
Galileo's telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when the heavens were thought to be perfect and unchanging. Christoph Scheiner, a Jesuit mathematician, argued that sunspots were planets or m...
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£42,00
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Three Steps to the Universe From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter
ISBN: PB: 9780226283487, ISBN: HB: 9780226283463, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
If scientists can't touch the Sun, how do they know what it's made of? And if we can't see black holes, how can we be confident they exist? Gravitational physicist David Garfinkle and his brother, science fiction writer Richard Garfinkle, tackle thes...
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£12,00
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£23,00
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