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• Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography (Springer Praxis Books / Popular Astronomy)

  From 1600 to 1800 a number of beautiful star atlases depicting the constellations according to ancient myths and tales were printed. In Europe, where the quality of celestial atlases was unmatched, classical Greek traditions prevailed and the constellations were given allegorical visual representations of heroes and heroines, real and imaginary animals, scientific instruments and artistic [...]

• The Earth in Context: A Guide to the Solar System (Springer-Praxis Series in Astronomy and Space Sciences)

  Awareness of the environment was stimulated by the ‘Earthrise’ pictures taken by the first Apollo crew to orbit the Moon. By sending spacecraft to other planets we’ve gained insights into the early history of our own planet. Comparative planetology is a science that has been facilitated by the Space Age. Comparative planetology highlights both similarities [...]

• The Solar Tachocline

  Helioseismology has enabled us to probe the internal structure and dynamics of the Sun, including how its rotation varies in the solar interior. The unexpected discovery of an abrupt transition – the tachocline – between the differentially rotating convection zone and the uniformly rotating radiative interior has generated considerable interest and raised many fundamental issues. [...]

• UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973

  Richard M. Dolan is a gifted historian whose study of U.S. Cold War strategy led him to the broader context of increased security measures and secrecy since World War II. One aspect of such government policies that has continued to hold the public’s imagination for over half a century is the question of unidentified flying [...]

• Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos

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