Download or read book Celestial Sites Celestial Splendors written by Hervé Burillier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celestial Sites, Celestial Splendors presents us with a beautiful and fascinating panorama of more than a hundred carefully chosen astronomical objects - from near-by planets, meteors and comets, to distant stars, galaxies and nebulae - and provides a comprehensive and practical guide to viewing them. Each object's location, discovery and optimal observation times are discussed, along with advice on the best techniques for observing each one. We are shown how these splendors of the sky can be seen with simple instruments, such as binoculars or a small telescope, and sometimes even with the naked eye. The book also gives advice on the best choice of accessories to use with amateur telescopes and contains photographs illustrating how each object appears when seen through such apparatus, along with excellent pictures from large space telescopes. Its accessible style will appeal to all amateur astronomers and anyone interested in the night sky.
Download or read book 1 001 Celestial Wonders to See Before You Die written by Michael E. Bakich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-07-10 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1,001 Celestial Wonders is a guide to the night sky's brightest and most fascinating objects. Each target is accessible to amateur astronomers using medium-sized telescopes from a dark site. In fact, many are so bright they remain visible under moderate light pollution, as from the outskirts of a city or the suburbs of a town. The book provides a chronological target list, making it easy to use. No matter what night you choose, this book will show you many of the most memorable objects to observe, whether you are using a small telescope or even binoculars, or an instrument of larger aperture. This is far more than just a list of interesting objects. It is structured so that objects of various observing difficulty are included, which will help readers become better observers, both encouraging beginners and challenging long-time amateur astronomers. This book is designed to be easy-to-use at the telescope, and observers will appreciate each object's standardized layout and the book's chronological organization. Finally, many amateur astronomers function best when presented with a list! Even the Meade Autostar® controller features a 'best tonight' list (although the list is far less comprehensive and detailed than the catalog provided in this book), a feature that has proved extremely popular. 1,001 Celestial Wonders offers a life-list of objects any observer would be proud to complete.
Download or read book Atlas of Deep Sky Splendors written by Hans Vehrenberg and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Splendor of the True written by Frithjof Schuon and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new anthology of the work of Frithjof Schuon that includes philosophical writings along with a selection of his poems, artworks, and unpublished writings from his personal papers.
Download or read book Celestial Harmonies written by Peter Esterhazy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Esterházys, one of Europe's most prominent aristocratic families, are closely linked to the rise and fall of the Hapsburg Empire. Princes, counts, commanders, diplomats, bishops, and patrons of the arts, revered, respected, and occasionally feared by their contemporaries, their story is as complex as the history of Hungary itself. Celestial Harmonies is the intricate chronicle of this remarkable family, a saga spanning seven centuries of epic conquest, tragedy, triumph, and near annihilation. Told by Péter Esterházy, a scion of this populous clan, Celestial Harmonies is dazzling in scope and profound in implication. It is fiction at its most awe-inspiring. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Download or read book Latest Light on Abraham Lincoln and War time Memories written by Ervin S. Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harmonies of the Universe written by Herbert William Morris and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Present conflict of science with the Christian religion or Modern scepticism met on its own ground written by Herbert William Morris and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Present Conflict of Science with the Christian Religion Or Modern Scepticism Met on Its Ground written by Herbert William Morris and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Present Conflict of Science with the Christian Religion written by Herbert William Morris and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Anastasis of the Dead written by Jason Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Splendor of an Autumn Moon written by Je Tsongkhapa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Some of the most inspiring verses ever written.”—Geshe Thupten Jinpa, PhD, founder, Institute for Tibetan Classics The Tibetan saint Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), the founder of the Dalai Lama's tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, was renowned for his vast learning, meditational achievements, influential writings on practice and philosophy, and reform of tantric religious practices. A deeply humble and religious man, he expressed himself in exquisite verse. Here, presented in both the original Tibetan and in English translation, are twenty-one devotional poems by Tsongkhapa. Each verse--dedicated to the Buddha, bodhisattvas, and lamas--illuminates some aspect of the Buddhist path. Gavin Kilty's commentary places each prayer into context, and his careful, artful translations will appeal to anyone with a love of poetry.
Download or read book Ramayana written by Krishna Dharma and published by Mandala Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its popularity in Eastern cultures, and though Eastern and Western scholars alike recognize it as a literary masterpiece, the Ramayana is unknown to most in the West. This edition gives English-speaking readers the best opportunity yet to discover and enjoy this ancient classic. The Ramayana, perhaps the world’s oldest literature, is both a spellbinding adventure and a work of profound philosophy, offering answers to life’s deepest questions. It tells of another time when gods and heroes walked among us, facing supernatural forces of evil and receiving guidance from powerful mystics and sages. Revered throughout the ages for its moral and spiritual wisdom, the beautiful and uplifting tale of romance and high adventure recounts the odyssey of Rama, a great king of ancient India. Rama, along with his virtuous, courageous wife Sita and faithful brother Lakshmana, is exiled to the forest for fourteen years. There, Sita is abducted by the powerful demon Ravana. With his brother and a fantastic army of supernatural creatures, Rama embarks on a perilous quest to find his beloved Sita.
Download or read book Emperor s Eyes written by George Vasil and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eleventh century Constantinople, treachery and subterfuge are the hallmarks of courtly intrigue. Newly wed Justin Phillipos is a heavy cavalryman who, along with several other comrades and his best friend, fellow horseman Peter Argyropoulos, is about to be honored for his bravery at the court of Emperor Romanos Diogenes. As he kisses his wife Eleni farewell, he has no idea that their lives will soon be in great peril. Romanos has a shaky hold on his power as he and his allies grow more unpopular. His demise is plotted by many. He sees a military victory against the marauding Seljuk Turks as the only way to bolster his waning power. He pulls Justin and Peter into a secret meeting in the Basilica Cistern and reveals to them the political intrigue of which they are now a part. Romanos assigns them to the command of Andronikos Dukas, one of the chief conspirators plotting the emperor’s demise. Eleni will be held in custody at the Palace Bucoleon by Empress Evdokia. She fears she will never see her husband again. As this epic drama unfolds across two continents, only time will tell if the military gambit will succeed or the plotting of antagonists will topple the precarious empire. Will the young soldiers survive? Will wife and husband share another passionate embrace?
Download or read book The Messiah written by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dreaming with Open Eyes written by Ayana O. Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreaming with Open Eyes examines visual symbolism in late seventeenth-century Italian opera, contextualizing the genre amid the broad ocularcentric debates emerging at the crossroads of the early modern period and the Enlightenment. Ayana O. Smith reevaluates significant aspects of the Arcadian reform aesthetic and establishes a historically informed method of opera criticism for modern scholars and interpreters. Unfolding in a narrative fashion, the text explores facets of the philosophical and literary background and concludes with close readings of text and music, using visual symbolism to create readings of gender and character in two operas: Alessandro Scarlatti's La Statira (Rome, 1690), and Carlo Francesco Pollarolo's La forza della virtù (Venice, 1693). Smith’s interdisciplinary approach enhances our modern perception of this rich and underexplored repertory, and will appeal to students and scholars not only of opera, but also of literature, philosophy, and visual and intellectual cultures.
Download or read book Splendor in the Sky written by Gerald S. Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
