Setting Sail for the Universe by Donald Fernie

Setting Sail for the Universe by Donald Fernie

This collection brings together twenty-eight of noted astronomer Donald Fernie's best Marginalia columns from American Scientist magazine. Published between 1985 and the present (and updated as necessary), the articles focus on the history of astronomy, bringing to life many of the finest minds who have sought to explain what we observe in the night sky. Written in an engaging style, these tales of discovery will be of interest to the general reader as well as those with a science background.

Fernie recounts the remarkable human adventures, struggles, and follies behind some well-known and lesser-known scientific conquests of past centuries, such as the contentious discovery of Neptune and the misguided search for Vulcan, a proposed planet between the Sun and Mercury. Several of the articles focus on the characters themselves, such as Edmond Halley of Halley's comet fame, or the obscure Jeremiah Horrocks, who made the first realistic determination of the distance between the sun and the earth, and preceded Newton in suggesting the existence of an attractive force now known as gravity.

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ISBN 13	9780813530888
ISBN 10	0813530881
Titel	Setting Sail for the Universe
Autor	Donald Fernie
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Verlag	Rutgers University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2002-05-31
Seitenanzahl	192
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