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• Cosmos, Bios, Theos: Scientists Reflect on Science, God, and the Origins of the Universe, Life, and Homo Sapiens

  How does modern science bear upon such ultimate questions as the origin of the universe and the existence of God? “Cosmos, Bios, Theos” is a portfolio of opinions and arguments from 60 scientists, including 24 Nobel Prize winners, on the relationshiip between the scientific enterprise and the religious view of reality. “Cosmos, Bios, Theos” makes [...]

• The Night Sky Observers Guide Vol. 2

  Amateur astronomers today are exceptionally fortunate to be living in an era when high quality, and very large, optics are so affordable. In the first half of the 20th century the telescope deluxe for the amateur was the 6-inch refractor. However, such telescopes were so expensive that very few amateurs could afford them: the majority [...]

• 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 [...]

• Exoplanets (Space Science Series)

  For the first time in human history, we know for certain the existence of planets around other stars. Now the fastest-growing field in space science, the time is right for this fundamental source book on the topic which will lay the foundation for its continued growth. Exoplanets serves as both an introduction for the non-specialist [...]

• The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature

  Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words “Phusis kruptesthai philei.” How the aphorism, usually translated as “Nature loves to hide,” has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot. Taking the allegorical figure of the veiled goddess Isis as a guide, [...]