The Cosmic Century
Subtitle: A History of Astrophysics and Cosmology
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 26, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 565
ISBN-13: 9780521474368
Subjects: Astrophysics; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astrophysics & Space Science; Science / Astrophysics & Space Science; 20th century; Cosmology; History
First sentence: The great revolutions in physics of the early years of the twentieth century have their exact counterparts in the birth of astrophysics and astrophysical cosmology - these astronomical disciplines scarcely existed before 1900.