David W Hughes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Science writers and astronomy scholars provide an introduction to astronomy and its discoveries about space, time, and the physics of the cosmos, detailing the history of the subject from ancient speculations about the nature of the universe, to the Copernican revolution, to the rise of astrophysics, to the theory of relativity, to theories about dark energy and cosmic expansion, including technological breakthroughs like Galileo’s telescope...