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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 ...

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. ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clocks in the Sky : The Story of Pulsars

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

Electronic Imaging in Astronomy : Detectors and Instrumentation

The second edition of Electronic Imaging in Astronomy: Detectors and Instrumentation describes the remarkable developments ...

First Light in the Universe : Saas-Fee Advanced Course 36. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy

The exploration of the first billion years of the history of the Universe, from the so-called Dark Ages to cosmic reionisation, ...

Fisica solare

Il volume è un'introduzione alla Fisica Solare che si propone lo scopo di illustrare alla persona che intende avvicinarsi ...

Galaxies in the Local Volume

Studies of Nearby Galaxies are currently the focus of many observations and numerical simulations. This book presents an ...

Gravity, Black Holes, and the Very Early Universe : An Introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology

In the early 1900s, Albert Einstein formulated two theories that would forever change the landscape of physics: the Special ...

High Time Resolution Astrophysics

High Time Resolution Astrophysics (HTRA) is an important new window to the universe and a vital tool in understanding a range ...

Ice, Rock, and Beauty : A Visual Tour of the New Solar System

Ice, Rock, and Beauty is a book for anybody who lives in the solar neighborhood, and takes an interest in its significance ...

Il cielo sopra Roma : I luoghi dell’astronomia = The sky above Rome: The places of astronomy

Astronomy in Rome has always been there, but a little hidden: it was in the palaces, in the churches or, better, above the ...

Its ONLY Rocket Science : An Introduction in Plain English

"Well, it’s not rocket science, is it?" How many times have you heard people use that expression when they mean something ...

La loi de la gravitation universelle Newton, Euler et Laplace : Le cheminement d’une révolution scientifique vers une science normale = The law of universal gravitation Newton, Euler and Laplace: The progress of a scientific revolution towards a normal science

An analysis of Newton's ideas dismisses this hypothesis by the simple fact that the Principia sought to demonstrate the ...

Molecular Beams in Physics and Chemistry From Otto Stern's Pioneering Exploits to Present-Day Feats

This book gives a comprehensive account of both the history and current achievements of molecular beam research. In 1919, ...

Multiple Stars Across the H-R Diagram : Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 12-15 July 2005

Stars show a marked tendency to be in systems of different multiplicity, ranging from simple binaries and triples to globular ...

Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics : Proceedings of the ESO/Lisbon/Aveiro Conference held in Aveiro, Portugal, 11–15 September 2006

High-accuracy Doppler shift measurements and high-precision spectroscopy are primary techniques in the search for exo-planets. Further ...

Quantum Gravitation : The Feynman Path Integral Approach

The book covers the theory of Quantum Gravitation from the point of view of Feynman path integrals. These provide a manifestly ...

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