From Ptolemy's spheres to dark energy
Subtitle: discovering the universe
By: John Farndon.
Series: Chain reactions
Publisher: Heinemann Library
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781403495532
Subjects: Astronomy -- Juvenile literature; Cosmology -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The many mysteries of space; title: How the heavens move; title: Moving the 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.