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A Century of Ideas : Perspectives from Leading Scientists of the 20th Century

Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures by Nobel ...

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978-0-387-33367-0
A Companion to Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy and Astrophysics is a comprehensive, fundamental, up-to-date reference book. It is filled with vital information ...

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978-1-4020-6941-3
A Pan-Chromatic View of Clusters of Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure

The reviews presented in this volume cover a wide-range of cluster of galaxies topics like the physics of the ICM gas, the ...

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978-1-4020-6639-9
African Cultural Astronomy : Current Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy research in Africa

Astronomy is the science of studying the sky using telescopes and light collectors such as photographic plates or CCD detectors. ...

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978-3-540-75833-4
Airglow as an Indicator of Upper Atmospheric Structure and Dynamics

The book summarizes international progress over the last few decades in upper atmosphere airglow research. Measurement methods, ...

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978-3-540-78659-7
An Introduction to the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation

The geometric interpretation of gravitation is one of the major foundations of modern theoretical physics. This primer introduces ...

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978-3-540-27670-8
Astroparticle Physics

The book describes the branch of astrophysics in which processes in the universe are investigated with experimental methods ...

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978-3-540-26983-0
Astrophysics

For a quantitative understanding of the physics of the universe - from the solar system through the milky way to clusters ...

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978-3-540-30313-8
Astrophysics Update 2

"Astrophysics Updates" is intended to serve the information needs of professional astronomers and postgraduate students ...

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978-3-540-73518-2
Axions : Theory, Cosmology, and Experimental Searches

Axions are peculiar hypothetical particles that could both solve the CP problem of quantum chromodynamics and at the same ...

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978-88-470-0674-4
Buchi neri nel mio bagno di schiuma : L’enigma di Einstein = Black holes in my bubble bath : Einstein's riddle

Einstein's Enigma, or black holes in my foam bath, tells the story of the theory of gravitation, from its beginnings to ...

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978-0-387-49768-6
Calibrating the Cosmos

Calibrating the Cosmos describes hard science, but is gently written. It explains in clear, non-mathematical language the ...

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978-0-387-76562-4
Clocks in the Sky : The Story of Pulsars

In this book, Geoff McNamara explores the history, subsequent discovery and contemporary research into pulsar astronomy. ...

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978-3-540-26633-4
Cosmic Explosions

The proceedings of the conference Supernovae 2003 (IAU colloquium 192) provides an extensive state-of-the-art survey of all ...

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978-3-540-48025-9
Cosmological Crossroads : An Advanced Course in Mathematical, Physical and String Cosmology

This book has grown out of lectures held at a summer school on cosmology, in response to an ever increasing need for an advanced ...

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978-3-540-31502-5
Cosmology

Cosmology deals with the current state of thinking about the basic questions at the center of the field of cosmology. More ...

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978-3-540-26373-9
Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics

The search for dark matter in the universe has established itself as one of the most exciting and central fields of astrophysics, ...

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978-3-030-30833-9
De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period The Authors of the Commentaries

This book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take ...

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978-0-387-69200-5
Einsteins General Theory of Relativity

Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity: With Modern Applications in Cosmology by Oyvind Gron and Sigbjorn Hervik is about ...

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978-0-387-69947-9
Einsteins Spacetime

Einstein's Space-Time: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity is a textbook addressed to students in physics ...

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