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Book Sirius

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jay B. Holberg
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2007-07-05
  • ISBN : 0387489428
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book Sirius written by Jay B. Holberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells two stories. The first and most obvious is why the star known as Sirius has been regarded as an important fixture of the night sky by many civilizations and cultures since the beginnings of history. A second, but related, narrative is the prominent part that Sirius has played in how we came to achieve our current scientific understanding of the nature and fate of the stars. This is the first book to integrate the cultural history of Sirius with modern astrophysics in a way which provides a realistic view of how science progresses over time.

Book The American Ideology of National Science  1919 1930

Download or read book The American Ideology of National Science 1919 1930 written by Ronald C. Tobey and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1971-10-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ronald C. Tobey provides a provocative analysis of the movement to establish a national science program in the early twentieth century. Led by several influential scientists, who had participated in centralized scientific enterprises during World War I, the new effort to conjoin science and society was an attempt to return to earlier progressive values with the hope of producing science for society's benefit. The movement was initially undermined by the new physics, and Einstein's theories of relativity, which shattered traditional views and alienated the American public. Nationalized research programs were tempered by the conservatism of corporate donors. Later, with the disintegration of progressivism, the gap between science and society made it impossible for the two cultures to unite.

Book Bulletin  1901 195

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brooklyn Public Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Bulletin 1901 195 written by Brooklyn Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Alumni Bulletin

Download or read book The Alumni Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Big Splat  or How Our Moon Came to Be

Download or read book The Big Splat or How Our Moon Came to Be written by Dana Mackenzie and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first popular book to explain the dramatic theory behind the Moon's genesis This lively science history relates one of the great recent breakthroughs in planetary astronomy-a successful theory of the birth of the Moon. Science journalist Dana Mackenzie traces the evolution of this theory, one little known outside the scientific community: a Mars-sized object collided with Earth some four billion years ago, and the remains of this colossal explosion-the Big Splat-came together to form the Moon. Beginning with notions of the Moon in ancient cosmologies, Mackenzie relates the fascinating history of lunar speculation, moving from Galileo and Kepler to George Darwin (son of Charles) and the Apollo astronauts, whose trips to the lunar surface helped solve one of the most enigmatic mysteries of the night sky: who hung the Moon? Dana Mackenzie (Santa Cruz, CA) is a freelance science journalist. His articles have appeared in such magazines as Science, Discover, American Scientist, The Sciences, and New Scientist.

Book James E  Keeler  Pioneer American Astrophysicist

Download or read book James E Keeler Pioneer American Astrophysicist written by Donald E. Osterbrock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-22 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of James E. Keeler (1857-1900), the leading astronomical spectroscopist of his generation.

Book The Nation

Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book News Notes of California Libraries

Download or read book News Notes of California Libraries written by California State Library and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.

Book Alumni Bulletin

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  • Author : University of Virginia
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 664 pages

Download or read book Alumni Bulletin written by University of Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Explorers of Mars Hill

Download or read book The Explorers of Mars Hill written by William Lowell Putnam and published by Light Technology Publishing. This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1894 in Flagstaff, Arizona by Percival Lowell, the Lowell Observatory on Mars Hill is still remembered as the site of numerous important astronomical firsts. The great recessional velocities of galaxies were first observed here in the years immediately before the first world war, a discovery that ultimately led scientists to the realization that our universe is expanding. In 1930, the dwarf planet Pluto was discovered at Lowell by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. This volume is a series of vignettes in the observatory's history, from its foundation and early years under Lowell's guidance to its more modern-day accomplishments. It is richly illustrated with photographs from the Lowell archives.

Book The Geographical Journal

Download or read book The Geographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.

Book The Secret Influence of the Moon

Download or read book The Secret Influence of the Moon written by Louis Proud and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moon is not a cold, dead rock but a rich, fascinating world just as alive as Earth • Investigates the Moon as the home of an alien intelligence who controls humanity • Examines several of NASA’s Apollo missions and the findings they concealed • Reveals the many holes in the “Giant Impact” theory about the Moon’s origins and the evidence for a hollow, artificial Moon • Explores the deep influence of the Moon on the collective mind of humanity and occult teachings about the Moon from the Qabbalah, tarot, and other sources Despite being the most prominent celestial body after the Sun, the Moon has many qualities that science has yet to explain. Lunar rock samples reveal the Moon once had a magnetic field like the Earth, and seismic experiments by NASA suggest the Moon is at least partially hollow. For centuries people have observed lights, moving clouds and shadows, and even the disappearance of entire craters via telescope. Apollo astronauts repeatedly felt the presence of a “non-human intelligence” during their Moon visits, and many indigenous traditions speak of malevolent visitors from the Moon. A growing body of astrophysical and geological evidence shows the Moon is not an entirely natural world--that someone or something altered it long ago. Louis Proud explores the phases and movements of the Moon along with its ancient and mysterious features--its craters, maria, rilles, tunnels, and domes. He examines several of NASA’s Apollo missions, showing not that NASA faked the Moon expeditions but that they concealed what the astronauts found there. He explains the many holes in the commonly accepted “Giant Impact” theory of the Moon’s origins and reveals the evidence for a hollow, artificial Moon placed in orbit eons ago to observe Earth. Examining the deep influence of the Moon on the collective mind of humanity, Proud looks at what the Qabbalah, the tarot, and other occult traditions say about the Moon and interprets G. I. Gurdjieff’s teachings that “we are food for the Moon.” He investigates the Moon as a gateway to another realm, as the Purgatory of Christianity, and as the home of an alien intelligence who controls and exploits humanity. Examining the Moon from both scientific and esoteric perspectives, Proud shows the Moon is not a cold, dead rock but a rich, fascinating world just as alive as Earth.

Book Bookseller and the Stationery Trades  Journal

Download or read book Bookseller and the Stationery Trades Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the British Astronomical Association

Download or read book Journal of the British Astronomical Association written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 53-54 includes prospectus entitled Its Nature, aims and methods.