num_pages: 502
description: The Cambridge Guide to the Solar System provides a comprehensive funamental and up-to-date description of the solar system. It is written in a concise light and uniform style without being unnecessarily weighted down with specialized materials or the variable writing of multiple authors. It is filled with vital facts and information for astronomers of all types and for anyone with a scientific interest in the Earth our Moon all the other planets and their satellites and related topics such as asteroids comets meteorites and meteors. The language style ideas and profuse illustrations will attract the general reader as well as professionals. A thorough report for general readers it includes much compact reference data. Metaphors similes and analogies will be of immense help to the lay person or non-science student and they add to the enjoyment of the material. Vignettes containing historical literary and even artistic material make this book unusual and interesting and enhance its scientific content. Kenneth Lang is professor of astronomy in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Tufts University. He is the author of several astrophysics books including The Sun from Space (Springer Verlag 2000) Astrophysical Formulae: Radiation Gas Processes and High Energy Physics (Springer Verlag 1999) Sun Earth and Sky (Copernicus Books 1997) Astrophysical Data: Planets and Stars (Springer Verlag 1993) and Wanderers in Space: Exploration and Discovery in the Solar System (Cambridge 1991)
language: English
title: The Cambridge Guide to the Solar System
publisher: Cambridge University Press