Revolutionaries of the cosmos
Subtitle: the astro-physicists
By: I.S. Glass.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Astrophysicists -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: This work contains short biographies of Galileo, Newton Herschel, Huggins, Hale, Eddington, Shapley and Hubble - eight astronomers who broke with traditions and defined the cosmos as we know it now.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: talent and opportunity; title: Galileo: seeing and believing; title: Isaac Newton: rationalising the universe; title: William Herschel: surveying the heavens; title: William Huggins: celestial chemical analysis; title: George Ellery Hale: providing the tools; title: Arthur Eddington: inside the stars; title: Harlow Shapley: defining our galaxy; title: Edwin Hubble: journeying to the edge.