The Astronomy Book

BIG IDEAS SIM PLY EXPLAINED GRAVITY EXPLAINS THE MOTIONS OF THE PLANETS FINALLY WE SHALL PLACE THE SUN HIMSELF AT THE CENTER OF ...

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DK LONDON SENIOR EDITOR Victoria Heyworth-Dunne US EDITOR Margaret Parrish SENIOR ART EDITORS Gillian Andrews, Nicola Rodway MAN ...

JACQUELINE MITTON, CONSULTANT EDITOR Jacqueline Mitton is the author of more than 20 books on astronomy, including books for chi ...

6 10 INTRODUCTION FROM MYTH TO SCIENCE 600 BCE–1550 CE 20 It is clear that Earth does not move The geocentric model 21 Earth rev ...

7 URANUS TO NEPTUNE 1750 – 84 I found that it is a comet, for it has changed its place Observing Uranus 86 The brightness of the ...

8 ATOMS, STARS, AND GALAXIES 1915 – 146 Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter The theory of rela ...

9 268 Most of the universe is missing Dark matter 272 Negative pressures produce repulsive gravity Cosmic inflation 274 Galaxies ...

INTRODUCTION ...

INTRODUCTION ...

12 T hroughout history, the aim of astronomy has been to make sense of the universe. In the ancient world, astronomers puzzled o ...

13 160 0 bce. Some of the constellations (groupings of stars) we know today have come from Mesopotamian mythology going back eve ...

14 Astronomy was largely discarded as the foundation of navigation in the 1970s, and replaced by artificial satellites, which cr ...

15 what, how, and when to observe. For instance, it was through the gathering and analysis of telescopic data that the rotation ...

FROM M YTH TO SCIE NCE 600 BCE–1550 CE ...

FROM M YTH TO SCIE NCE 600 BCE–1550 CE ...

18 T he traditions on which modern astronomy is built began in ancient Greece and its colonies. In nearby Mesopotamia, although ...