Unfolding our Universe Iain Nicolson University of Hertfordshire Mark McLellan Price: AUD$85.00
Status 1 - 2 week delivery
Bindings: Hardback Date of Publication: 13/1/2000 Bibliographic Description: 2000 279 x 215 mm 304pp 108 line diagrams 120 colour plates
Unfolding Our Universe is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to astronomy. With a clear, crisp text and beautiful colour illustrations, it takes readers to the heart of the Universe - explaining the facts, concepts, methods and frontiers of astronomical science. The book can be read without referring to any mathematics. Full colour throughout and a very readable text make this book a delight for the casual reader to browse, while the clear and concise explanations will appeal to amateur astronomers, science teachers and college and university students seeking a no-nonsense introduction to astronomy.
Contents Foreword; 1. Overview of the universe; 2. Observing the universe; 3. The moving sky; 4. Orbits and gravity; 5. The earth-moon system; 6. Worlds beyond - the planets; 7. Wandering fragments: minor members of the solar system; 8. The sun - our neighborhood star; 9. Stars - basic properties; 10. Nebulae and the birth of stars and planets; 11. Stellar life cycles; 12. Collapsing, exploding and interacting stars; 13. The Milky Way and other galaxies; 14. Active Galaxies and Quasars; 15. Cosmology: beginnings and endings;
Key Features
Well illustrated throughout in full colour with specially commissioned figures and images from the world's best telescopes
Can be read right through without recourse to mathematics
A highly experienced author, well known for more than 17 books including: The Road to the Stars (David & Charles, 1978, sold 34,000 copies), Th
` ... this new book, by Iain Nicolson, is in every way outstanding. It is written with immense skill, with excellent illustrations, and it is very well produced; the publishers have clearly taken the greatest care ... Perhaps the strongest point about the book is that it will appeal to readers of all kinds. The beginner will have no difficulty in following it through, and the serio
