Illustrated on the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics And Astronomy

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• Rocks from Space: Meteorites and Meteorite Hunters (Astronomy)

  This popular guide to cosmic debris introduces the fascinating world of meteorites, asteroids, comets, and impact craters. With more than 50 new photographs and updated illustrations, new and expanded appendixes, and some fun cosmic humor, Rocks from Space, Second Edition, journeys into the last frontier for close-up looks at the latest astronomical discoveries. Topics: astronomy [...]

• Missions to the Moon: The Complete Story of Man’s Greatest Adventure

  Missions to the Moon traces our quest to explore this final frontier, starting with the deadly development of German V1s and V2s in the Second World War, through the pioneering adventures of the Apollo moon-landing program, and culminating in the future of lunar exploration with the recent missions by China, Japan, and Europe.Through 150 stunning [...]

• Destination Mars: In Art, Myth, and Science (Penguin Studio Books)

  In the summer of 1996, the question of life beyond the reaches of Earth was suddenly cast into a new dimension by the report of fossilized organic structures found in a Martian meteor. Later that summer and fall, as NASA launched the Mars Pathfinder and Surveyor missions, mankind’s interest had once again fixed itself on [...]

• Mars Beckons: The Mysteries, the Challenges, the Expectations of Our Next Great Adventure in Space

  A Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer traverses the vast physical and cognitive distances between earth and Mars, offering an informed vision of the future of Martian exploration. “Mars Beckons” is a fascinating synthesis of myth, history, politics, and high technology, written with the momentum of a grand adventure story. Topics: Mars Beckons, Pulitzer Prize

• The Amateur Telescope

  Torrance Dentist Home Telescope Design WHO Says THE globe is not gaining far better? Suppose we have a look at it and see. Five years or so ago, when “Amateur Telescope Making” was just passing by way of its puberty, there had been two fabulous bugbears inside the telescope generating art- making pitch laps and [...]