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St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Pages
408

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Table of Contents

Preface / by D.H. Levy
Some pieces from history. The heavens declare the glory of God / by A.G. Ingalls
On the generalized theory of gravitation / by A. Einstein
What is matter? / by E. Schrödinger
The birth of the universe. The evolution of the universe / by P.J.E. Peebles ... [et al.]
The evolution of galaxy clusters / by J.P. Henry, U.G. Briel, H. Böhringer
The lives of quasars / by G. Cecil, J. Bland-Hawthorn, S. Veilleux
Edwin Hubble and the expanding universe / by D.E. Osterbrock, J.A. Gwinn, R.S. Brashear
The big bang and beyond : a century of modern cosmology / by L. Bernstein
Galaxy formation. Galaxies behind the Milky Way / by R.C. Kraan-Korteweg, O. Lahav
Colossal galactic explosions / by S. Veilleux, G. Cecil, J. Bland-Hawthorn
Dark matter in the universe / by V. Rubin
What's new in the Milky Way / by M.V. Magee
The Milky Way. How the Milky Way formed / by S. van den Bergh, J.E. Hesser
Black holes and the information paradox / by L. Susskind
Collapse and formation of stars / by A.P. Boss
Accretion disks in interacting binary stars / by J.K. Cannizzo, R.H. Kaitchuck
The genesis of the solar system. The origins of the asteroids / by R.P. Binzel, M.A. Barucci, M. Fulchignoni
The Kuiper belt / byJ.X. Luu, D.C. Jewitt
Migrating planets / by R. Malhotra
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 meets Jupiter / by D.H. Levy, E. Shoemaker, C.S. Shoemaker
On comets / by J.V. Scotti
Solar system origins / by M. Washburn
The planetary tour. Mercury : the forgotten planet / by R.M. Nelson
Global climate change on Venus / by M.A. Bullock, D.H. Grinspoon
The earth's elements / by R.P. Kirschner
The evolution of the earth / by C.J. Allègre, S.H. Schneider
Global climatic change on Mars / by J.S. Kargel, R.G. Strom
The outer planets ; The outer moons / M. Washburn
What's new in the solar system / by P. Jedicke
Life on earth ... and elsewhere. The structure of hereditary material / by F.H.C. Crick
Life's far-flung raw materials / by M.P. Bernstein, S.A. Sandford, L.J. Allamandola
The evolution of life on the earth / by S.J. Gould
The case for relic life on Mars / by E.K. Gibson ... [et al.]
Searching for life on other planets / by J. Roger, P. Angel, N.J. Woolf
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence / by C. Sagan, F. Drake
Giant planets orbiting faraway stars / by G.W. Marcy, R.P. Butler
End of the proterozic eon / by A.H. Knoll
The microverse. The discovery of the top quark / by T.M. Liss, P.L. Tipton
Quantum philosophy / by J. Horgan
Atoms, molecules, and the early universe / by A. Scheeline
Speculation on endings and beginnings. The inflationary universe / by A.H. Guth, P.J. Steinhardt
The expansion rate and size of the universe / by W.L. Freedman
The self-reproducing inflationary universe / by A. Linde.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-406).
"A Byron Preiss book."

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New York
Other Titles
Cosmos, Scientific American.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
523.1
Library of Congress
QB981 .S395 2000, QB981.S395 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 408 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
408

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3967177M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780312254537
ISBN 10
0312254539
LCCN
2001273103
OCLC/WorldCat
44782273
Goodreads
1789049

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