Wacky and Wonderful Misconceptions About Our Universe

From unicorns on the Moon to UFOs piloted by Martian bees, this book chronicles some of the strangest ideas that have been put forward - and have actually been believed in -- about our Solar System. Drawn from tales dating from the Middle Ages to the present, this collection of stories takes readers...

Πλήρης περιγραφή

Λεπτομέρειες βιβλιογραφικής εγγραφής
Κύριος συγγραφέας: Kirby, Geoffrey (Συγγραφέας, 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, 2018.
Έκδοση:1st ed. 2018.
Σειρά:Astronomers' Universe,
Θέματα:
Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
LEADER 03306nam a2200529 4500
001 978-3-319-73022-6
003 DE-He213
005 20191023222021.0
007 cr nn 008mamaa
008 180525s2018 gw | s |||| 0|eng d
020 |a 9783319730226  |9 978-3-319-73022-6 
024 7 |a 10.1007/978-3-319-73022-6  |2 doi 
040 |d GrThAP 
050 4 |a QB1-991 
072 7 |a WNX  |2 bicssc 
072 7 |a SCI004000  |2 bisacsh 
072 7 |a WNX  |2 thema 
082 0 4 |a 520  |2 23 
100 1 |a Kirby, Geoffrey.  |e author.  |4 aut  |4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 
245 1 0 |a Wacky and Wonderful Misconceptions About Our Universe  |h [electronic resource] /  |c by Geoffrey Kirby. 
250 |a 1st ed. 2018. 
264 1 |a Cham :  |b Springer International Publishing :  |b Imprint: Springer,  |c 2018. 
300 |a XVI, 258 p. 128 illus., 50 illus. in color.  |b online resource. 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
347 |a text file  |b PDF  |2 rda 
490 1 |a Astronomers' Universe,  |x 1614-659X 
505 0 |a Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Sun and Its Solar System -- A Sexy Musical Pool Game? Chapter 3: Our Three Wacky Inner Planets -- Imaginary, Delusionary and Inhabited -- Chapter 4: Earth -- Flat, Hollow or Inside Out? -- Chapter 5: Our Moon - Inhabited, Small and Icy -- Chapter 6: Mars: Inhabited and a Threat? -- Chapter 7: Solar System Rubble: The Home of Princess Moon Owl? -- Chapter 8: The Outer Planets -- Forests of Hemp, Armadas of Seamen and the Holy Foreskin of Jesus -- Chapter 9: Wackiness Beyond the Solar System -- Chapter 10: Is It Wacky to Believe in Astrology and UFOs? -- Index. 
520 |a From unicorns on the Moon to UFOs piloted by Martian bees, this book chronicles some of the strangest ideas that have been put forward - and have actually been believed in -- about our Solar System. Drawn from tales dating from the Middle Ages to the present, this collection of stories takes readers on an imaginative and wild ride through the ages and minds of some of the wackiest, tackiest, most outlandish concepts in astronomy, cosmology and physics. Follow along as Geoff Kirby recounts each quirky idea in detail and explains how these theories fare against modern astronomical research and technologies. 
650 0 |a Astronomy. 
650 0 |a Observations, Astronomical. 
650 0 |a Astronomy-Observations. 
650 0 |a History. 
650 0 |a Cosmology. 
650 1 4 |a Popular Science in Astronomy.  |0 http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/Q11009 
650 2 4 |a Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.  |0 http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/P22014 
650 2 4 |a History of Science.  |0 http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/731000 
650 2 4 |a Cosmology.  |0 http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/P22049 
710 2 |a SpringerLink (Online service) 
773 0 |t Springer eBooks 
776 0 8 |i Printed edition:  |z 9783319730219 
776 0 8 |i Printed edition:  |z 9783319730233 
830 0 |a Astronomers' Universe,  |x 1614-659X 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73022-6  |z Full Text via HEAL-Link 
912 |a ZDB-2-PHA 
950 |a Physics and Astronomy (Springer-11651)