Minding the Heavens; The Story of our Discovery of the Milky Way; 2 by Belkora Leila
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Overview: Praise for the first edition:
“A terrific blend of the science and the history.”
Martha Haynes, Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University, New York, USA
“The book is a treat… Highly recommended for public and academic libraries.”
Peter Hepburn, now Head Librarian, College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, California, USA
Today, we recognize that we live on a planet circling the sun, that our sun is just one of billions of stars in the galaxy we call the Milky Way, and that our galaxy is but one of billions born out of the Big Bang. Yet, as recently as the early twentieth century, the general public and even astronomers had vague and confused notions about what lay beyond the visible stars. Can we see to the edge of the universe? Do we live in a system that would look, from a distance, like a spiral nebula?
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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