The Andromeda Galaxy and the Rise of Modern Astronomy
The Andromeda Galaxy - Messier's M31 - has an almost romantic appeal. It is the most distant object and the only extragalactic object that is visible to the unaided human eye. It is also almost a twin of the Milky Way Galaxy and our neighbor in space, now known to be about 2.5 million light-yea...
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| Μορφή: | Livre numérique |
| Γλώσσα: | Anglais |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York
2012.
Cham : Springer Nature |
| Σειρά: | Astronomers' Universe
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • The Andromeda Galaxy and the rise of modern astronomy, David Schultz, New York, Springer, 2012, 1 vol. (XII-271 p.), Astronomers' universe, 978-1-4614-3048-3 |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Chapter 1: The Wonder of Andromeda Galaxy Chapter 2: Early Depictions of Andromeda Chapter 3: A Single Closed Theory of the Universe Chapter 4: Andromeda and the Technological Revolution in Astronomy Chapter 5: Andromeda and Astronomy at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Chapter 6: The Andromeda Nebula and the Great Island-Universe Debate Chapter 7: Edwin Hubble, an Infinite Universe, and the Classification of Galaxies Chapter 8: Andromeda, Galactic Redshift, and the Big Bang Theory Chapter 9: Andromeda, Cosmology, and Post-World War II Astronomy Chapter 10: Astronomy and Andromeda at the Close of the Twentieth Century Chapter 11: The Andromeda Galaxy References Andromeda Statistics Index