The Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life The Search for Our Cosmic Roots /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Teerikorpi, Pekka (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Valtonen, Mauri (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Lehto, Kirsi (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Lehto, Harry (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Byrd, Gene (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Chernin, Arthur (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 2nd ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Astrobiology.; Cosmology.; Planetology.; Astrophysics.; Physics.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

Regarding his discoveries, Sir Isaac Newton famously said, "If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." The Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life describes, complete with fascinating biographical details of the thinkers involved, a history of the universe as...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Part 1: The Widening World View
• When Science Was Born
• Science in Athens
• Planetary Spheres and the Size of the Universe
• Medieval Cosmology
• The Roots of the Copernican Revolution
• The True Laws of Planetary Motion Revealed
• Galileo Galilei and His Successors
• How Far Away Are the Stars?
• The Scale of the Solar System
• Part 2: Physical Laws of Nature
• Newton
• Celestial Mechanics
• Nature of Light
• Electricity and Magnetism
• Time and Space
• Curved Space and Gravity
• Atoms and Nuclei
• Strange Microworld
• Elementary Particles
• Part 3: The Universe
• Stars: Cosmic Fusion Reactors
• The Riddle of the Milky Way
• Entering the Galaxy Universe
• Large-scale Structure of the Universe
• Finite or Infinite Universe: Cosmological Models
• When it all Began: Big Bang
• The Dark Side of the Universe
• Active Galaxies: Messages Through Radio Waves
• Origin of Galaxies
• Part 4: Life in the Universe
• The Nature of Life
• The Origin of Earth and its Moon
• Emergence and Evolution of Life
• Life and our Solar System
• Extrasolar Planetary Systems and Life in other Solar Systems
• Human's Role in the Universe
• Recommended Reading
• Index.