EAN: 9780241235874

BOOKS OUR UNIVERSE - JO DUNKLEY KARTONIERT (TB)

A world-renowned astrophysicist takes us through the huge  unfolding history of the universeThe
night sky is an endless source of wonder and mystery. For thousands of years it has been at the
heart of scientific and philosophical inquiry  from the first star catalogues etched into
ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets to the metres-wide telescopes constructed in Chile's Atacama
Desert today. On a clear night it is hard not to look up and pick out familiar constellations 
and to think of the visionary minds who pioneered our understanding of what lies beyond.In this
thrilling new guide to our Universe and how it works  Professor of Astrophysics Jo Dunkley
reveals how it only becomes more beautiful and exciting the more we discover about it. With
warmth and clarity  Dunkley takes us from the very basics - why the Earth orbits the Sun  and
how our Moon works - right up to massive  strange phenomena like superclusters  quasars  and
the geometry of spacetime. As she does so  Dunkley unfurls the history of humankind's heroic
journey to understand the history and structure of the cosmos  revealing the extraordinary 
little-known stories of astronomy pioneers including Williamina Fleming  Vera Rubin and Jocelyn
Bell Burnell. Illuminating and uplifting  this is your essential guide to the biggest subject
of all.

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