Stamping through astronomy
Stamps and other postal documents are an attractive vehicle for presenting astronomy and its development. Written with expertise and great enthusiasm, this unique book offers a historical and philatelic survey of astronomy and some related topics on space exploration. It contains more than 1300 colo...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Language: | Anglais |
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Milano :
Springer Milan
2013.
Cham : Springer Nature |
| Online Access: | Accès sur la plateforme de l'éditeur Accès sur la plateforme Istex Accès Université d'Orléans Accès INSA CVL |
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Stamping Through Astronomy, by Renato Dicati, Milan, Springer, 2013, 1 vol. (XI-373 p.), 978-88-470-2828-9 • Stamping Through Astronomy, Texte imprimé, 9788847028302 • Stamping Through Astronomy, Texte imprimé, 9788847058453 |
Table of Contents:
- 1 The origins of Astronomy
- 2 The ancients Astronomy
- 3 Medieval Astronomy
- 4 The revival of Astronomy and the Copernican revolution
- 5 Galileo and the new views of the sky
- 6 The Mechanical Universe
- 7 The development of instrumentation
- 8 Observations and discoveries in the Solar System
- 9 The advent of Astrophysics
- 10 The discovery of the Universe
- 11 The new astronomies. .