Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Space Science - Astronomy

This book will cover in great detail the newest construction and uses of the International Space Station. The new volume will continue on from the end of Creating the International Space Station by David Harland and John Catchpole (published in January 2002 by Springer Praxis), providing flight by flight details and relevant political and "behind the scenes" activities as are necessary to explain why certain decisions, including flight re-scheduling and crew-reassignment, are made.

Part 1 will open with a chapter recounting the political history of the ISS,...

In the 5th century the Indian mathematician Aryabhata (476-499) wrote a small but famous work on astronomy, the Aryabhatiya. This treatise, written in 118 verses, gives in its second chapter a summary of Hindu mathematics up to that time. Two hundred years later, an Indian astronomer called Bhaskara glossed this mathematial chapter of the Aryabhatiya.

An english translation of Bhaskara s commentary and a mathematical supplement are presented in two volumes.

Subjects treated in Bhaskara s commentary range from computing the volume of an equilateral...

Eos or the Wider Aspects of Cosmogony

J H Jeans

Originally published in 1928

"A fascinating summary of his tremendous conclusions " Times Literary Supplement

"No book in the series surpasses Eos in brilliance and profundity "

Is this universe permanent or transitory? If transitory, is it near its end or just beginning? Is life common or rare? Where does life stand in relation t the stupendous mass of inert matter? These and other issues are lucidly dealt with in this book.

80pp, 6 b&w plates

Hermes, or the Future of Chemistry

T W Jones

Originally...

Ausdrucklich ausgeklammert sind in der vorliegenden neuen Munchner Edition der Urkunden, Akten und Nachrichten die Marginalia von Copernicus in gedruckten Werken, seine astronomischen Beobachtungen, seine Rezepte und die Munzschriften, die den Banden IV,1 und IV,2 ("Opera minora"), die sich bereits in Vorbereitung befinden, vorbehalten bleiben.

This volume considers the role comets may have played in the origins and evolution of life. This is the only book dealing in depth with this subject. It is particularly relevant in light of recent investigations of Halley's comet, of new insights into organic synthesis in meteorites and comets, and of new results of numerical simulations of cometary orbits and impacts on Earth. The book is intended as a comprehensive review of current research.

This fascinating book reviews the progress made in Mercury studies since the flybys by Mariner 10 in 1974-75. Thus far, it is the only book on Mercury which balances a wide range of Earth-based observations, made under difficult conditions, with the only available space-based data. The text is based on continued research using the Mariner 10 archive, on observations from Earth, and on increasingly realistic models of this mysterious planet's interior evolution.