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An examination of the events, people and discoveries made in the field of cosmology and toward understanding of the nature of the universe.

Seeing in the Dark is a poetic love letter to the skies and a stirring report on the revolution now sweeping amateur astronomy in which backyard stargazers link globally by the Internet are exploring deep space and making discoveries worthy of the professionals. Timothy Ferris invites us all to become stargazers, recounting his lifelong experiences as an enthralled stargazer, and capturing the exquisite experience when ancient starlight strikes the...

The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers is a unique and valuable resource for historians and astronomers alike. The two volumes include approximately 1550 biographical sketches on astronomers from antiquity to modern times. It is the collective work of about 400 authors edited by an editorial board of 9 historians and astronomers, and provides additional details on the nature of an entry and some summary statistics on the content of entries....

Designed for middle and high school students, A to Z of Scientists in Space and Astronomy is an ideal reference to notable male and female scientists in the field of space and astronomy, from antiquity to the present. Containing more than 150 entries and approximately 50 black-and-white photographs, this exciting volume in the Notable Scientists series emphasizes these scientists' contributions to the field as well as their effects on those who have...

Because of Galileo's courageous campaign to change the methods of doing science, physicist Albert Einstein called him "the father of modern physics--indeed, of modern science altogether." A devout Catholic who wanted the church to maintain its authority and wisdom, Galileo worked tirelessly to persuade the church authorities to stop insisting that the sun revolved around a stationary earth, when there was evidence to prove otherwise. Galileo's persistence...

"Sir Fred Hoyle, who died in 2001, was the first astronomer to popularise his subject through the media of radio and television which, in the 1950s, made him a major public figure. He played an important part in transforming the fortunes of British astronomy in the years after the Second World War and was also one of the leading theoretical astronomers of his day, who many thought would have been awarded a Nobel Prize had he not so obviously relished...

Biography of the Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at its center.