num_pages: 264
description: The contributors to this book, in the process of describing for the general reader the most recent advances in man's understanding of the cosmos, at the same time clarify one of the oldest questions in scientific the nature of the mutual interaction between theory and observation, concept and experiment, prediction and proof.Contributors include Owen Gingerich, Kenneth Bracher, Robert F. C. Vessot, Fred L. Whipple, Fred Franklin, Robert W. Noyes, Robert Rosner, Harvey Tananbaum, Alan P. Lightman, Walter H. G. Lewin, William H. Press, John Huchra, and George B. Field.
language: English
title: Revealing the Universe: Prediction and Proof in Astronomy
titlecomplete: Revealing the Universe: Prediction and Proof in Astronomy
publisher: The MIT Press