From Ptolemy's spheres to dark energy
Subtitle: discovering the universe
By: John Farndon
Series: Chain reactions; Chain reactions
Publisher: Heinemann Library
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780431186610
Subjects: Astronomy; Juvenile literature; History; Discoveries in science
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Table of contents includes: The many mysteries of space; title: How the heavens move; title: Moving Earth; title: Kepler's ovals; title: Galileo's telescope; title: Discovering gravity; title: New planets, distant stars; title: The giant universe; title: The relative universe; title: The expanding universe; title: Signs of the Big Bang; title: Black holes and the Big Bang; title: The dark universe; title: Bringing it all together; title: Timeline; title: Biographies.