- ISBN13: 9780470230831
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Product Description
Discover the wonders of the night sky with this bestselling astronomy guide For a generation, Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers worldwide to the night sky. Now this classic beginner’s guide has been completely revised to bring it up to date with the latest discoveries and graphics. Features over 80 new photos and illustrations, including a full-color insert Reviews the newest telescopes and spacecraft… More >>
Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide
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#1 by Anonymous on April 17, 2010 - 10:52 pm
This book on Astronomy taught me a lot things. Before I read this book I didn’t know to much about astronomy but now after i read the book i know a lot! I loved it!
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Arthur D. Scarr on April 17, 2010 - 11:03 pm
I would not buy from this seller and I am not interested in purchasing again from Amazon until they are able to get the products you pay for to the recipients that you have bought them for. Not impressed with the lack of communication from Amazon over where this shipment is at this time almost 3 months later still. Very undesirable support here.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Neil R. Roberts on April 18, 2010 - 12:19 am
Wanting to teach myself a little astronomy, I purchased this book, since it somehow had acquired a noble status among similar literature. Upon receiving the book and looking through it, I simply wondered “how?”. It seems that most books of this type suffer from similar defects. The design seems to be based off a children’s activity book. Wide margins, plentiful empty, white space, and text that is big and ugly. Is it possible to publish a book of this purpose with a crisp, small font, several paragraphs per page, and clean, sharp diagrams/illustrations? Apparently not. Perhaps I’m alone in desiring an efficient, textbook-like layout. It seems possible that the complete text of this book could have been printed on 50 pages. Anyway, there’s more. The book has been reprinted several times due to its popularity. Again, I’m at a loss for why. Though the cover, perhaps, has changed, the photos that litter its pages, seem to have not. Imagine for a moment taking a photo of Jupiter through a sheet of black tracing paper. Now imagine the resultant sharpness and resolution. Breathtaking, no? The overall quality of diagrams, illustrations, and photos is woeful. Lastly, this book, in sharing the rudiments of astronomical science felt compelled to discuss the wonderful world of SETI!!! SETI is a money-sucking escapade in speculative failure. This book, as most others do, discussess the pseudo-scientific merits of the SETI program, complete with reproductions of the diagrams we’ve sent along into outer space of a generic ( though peaceful looking), naked man and woman. Hmmm… You will find some science in this book, but if you hope to master the basics of astronomy and take part in an honest discussion regarding the limited understanding we still have of many things universal, I recommend looking elsewhere.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by bleedingfreak on April 18, 2010 - 3:14 am
This book is a good introduction to astronomy, but, they put the answers for all the tests right next to (and often directly underneath) the questions. That makes it very hard to take the tests sincerely because it’s so easy to accidentally glance at the answers.
Rating: 2 / 5
#5 by haim ben-bassat on April 18, 2010 - 4:05 am
The book contain short information on every aspect of astronomy.It is well written with good methodology.The draft are not so clear and in astronomy they have to be three dimssion coloured drafts.
Rating: 4 / 5