Stamping Through Astronomy

• Main Author: Dicati, Renato (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.

Stamps and other postal documents are an attractive vehicle for presenting astronomy and its development. Written with expertise and great enthusiasm, this unique book offers a historical and philatelic survey of astronomy and some related topics on space exploration. It contains more than 1300 colo...

Table of Contents:

• 1 The origins of Astronomy
• 2 The ancients’ Astronomy
• 3 Medieval Astronomy
• 4 The revival of Astronomy and the Copernican revolution
• 5 Galileo and the  new views of the sky
• 6 The Mechanical Universe
• 7 The development of instrumentation
• 8 Observations and discoveries in the Solar System
• 9 The advent of Astrophysics
• 10 The discovery of the Universe
• 11 The new astronomies.   .