Some well-known researchers, such as Jill Tarter, Frank Drake, and Freeman Dyson, have small sidebars dedicated to an explanation of their work. This book is just right for a young mind that enjoys both astronomy and history. The origins of astronomy, ancient astronomy and its uses, mythology, astrology, geocentricity, and other historical aspects of astronomy are explained with light text and lavish illustrations. The development of modern-day astronomy with sophisticated telescopes, space travel, and an exponentially increasing knowledge of the universe bring us up to the present. This book is for children who can't sit still.
Every page includes a different activity or experiment to try.
Scout leaders and teachers will find many ways to occupy their charges in these pages. This Kingfisher book imitates the line of DK books in its style. Every two pages readers find another topic using lavish illustrations, brief text, and explanatory captions. The overriding theme is the search for our place in the universe. Exploration of space and a journey through our solar system and out to the edge of the universe give readers a broad sweep of how we fit into it all.