The Scientific American book of the cosmos
By: David H. Levy, editor.
Contributors: Levy, David H., 1948-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Cosmology.; Astronomy.
Other titles: Cosmos; Scientific American.
Description: Examines our solar system and galaxy and other parts of the universe and describes our attempts to study and explore space.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-406).
"A Byron Preiss book."
Table of contents: title: Preface / by D.H. Levy; title: Some pieces from history.  The heavens declare the glory of God / by A.G. Ingalls; title: On the generalized theory of gravitation / by A. Einstein; title: What is matter? / by E. Schrödinger; title: The birth of the universe.  The evolution of the universe / by P.J.E. Peebles ... [et al.]; title: The evolution of galaxy clusters / by J.P. Henry, U.G. Briel, H. Böhringer; title: The lives of quasars / by G. Cecil, J. Bland-Hawthorn, S. Veilleux; title: Edwin Hubble and the expanding universe / by D.E. Osterbrock, J.A. Gwinn, R.S. Brashear; title: The big bang and beyond : a century of modern cosmology / by L. Bernstein; title: Galaxy formation.  Galaxies behind the Milky Way / by R.C. Kraan-Korteweg, O. Lahav; title: Colossal galactic explosions / by S. Veilleux, G. Cecil, J. Bland-Hawthorn; title: Dark matter in the universe / by V. Rubin; title: What's new in the Milky Way / by M.V. Magee; title: The Milky Way.  How the Milky Way formed / by S. van den Bergh, J.E. Hesser; title: Black holes and the information paradox / by L. Susskind; title: Collapse and formation of stars / by A.P. Boss; title: Accretion disks in interacting binary stars / by J.K. Cannizzo, R.H. Kaitchuck; title: The genesis of the solar system.  The origins of the asteroids / by R.P. Binzel, M.A. Barucci, M. Fulchignoni; title: The Kuiper belt / byJ.X. Luu, D.C. Jewitt; title: Migrating planets / by R. Malhotra; title: Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 meets Jupiter / by D.H. Levy, E. Shoemaker, C.S. Shoemaker; title: On comets / by J.V. Scotti; title: Solar system origins / by M. Washburn; title: The planetary tour.  Mercury : the forgotten planet / by R.M. Nelson; title: Global climate change on Venus / by M.A. Bullock, D.H. Grinspoon; title: The earth's elements / by R.P. Kirschner; title: The evolution of the earth / by C.J. Allègre, S.H. Schneider; title: Global climatic change on Mars / by J.S. Kargel, R.G. Strom; title: The outer planets ; The outer moons / M. Washburn; title: What's new in the solar system / by P. Jedicke; title: Life on earth ... and elsewhere.  The structure of hereditary material / by F.H.C. Crick; title: Life's far-flung raw materials / by M.P. Bernstein, S.A. Sandford, L.J. Allamandola; title: The evolution of life on the earth / by S.J. Gould; title: The case for relic life on Mars / by E.K. Gibson ... [et al.]; title: Searching for life on other planets / by J. Roger, P. Angel, N.J. Woolf; title: The search for extraterrestrial intelligence / by C. Sagan, F. Drake; title: Giant planets orbiting faraway stars / by G.W. Marcy, R.P. Butler; title: End of the proterozic eon / by A.H. Knoll; title: The microverse.  The discovery of the top quark / by T.M. Liss, P.L. Tipton; title: Quantum philosophy / by J. Horgan; title: Atoms, molecules, and the early universe / by A. Scheeline; title: Speculation on endings and beginnings.  The inflationary universe / by A.H. Guth, P.J. Steinhardt; title: The expansion rate and size of the universe / by W.L. Freedman; title: The self-reproducing inflationary universe / by A. Linde.