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Carl Sagan: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)

Autoren: Ray Spangenburg, Kit Moser

The Life and Times of Tycho Brahe

Autor: Dr. Mukesh Gupta

Limitless: The Autobiography: The bestselling story of Britain’s inspirational astronaut

Autor: Tim Peake

80 Not Out: The Autobiography

Autor: Patrick Moore

Celestial Revolutionary: Copernicus, the Man and His Universe

John Freely

Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother

James A. Connor

First Man

James R Hansen

Patrick Moore: 80 Not Out - The Autobiography by CBE, DSc, FRAS, Sir Patrick Moore (2003-03-06)

DSc, FRAS, Sir Patrick Moore CBE

Harlow Shapley - Biography of an Astronomer: The Man Who Measured the Universe

Dr. Doug West

Harlow Shapley was an astronomer, humanitarian, and public figure in his day. Born in the hills of the Ozarks in Missouri, he went on to become the director of the Harvard College Observatory and discovered our place in the galaxy.

Because of the painstaking work of this tireless American astronomer, we were given a clearer picture of our place in the universe. Shapley was a prodigious astronomer who completed significant work on globular clusters, Cepheid variables, as well as key aspects of cosmology and stellar astronomy, including nebular and stellar spectroscopy and photometry.

Shapley also did important work on the Magellanic Clouds, which are neighbor galaxies to our own Milky Way. He made the deduction that the Sun is located at the central plane of the galaxy on a minor arm of the Milky Way about 30, 000 light years from the galactic center. This was in direct conflict with the prevailing view of the galaxy and caused quite a stir in the astronomical community.

At the peak of his career as an astronomer, he worked at the Mt. Wilson Observatory and afterward served at the helm of the Harvard College Observatory, eventually transforming it into an important training and observational facility. Shapley was to lead the development of the Harvard Astronomy program, which produced many prominent astronomers.

Shapley's work on international issues in astronomy lead him to multiple visits to Russia. This was at the early stages of the Cold War between the United States and Russia. Harlow Shapley had caught the eye of the F B I and the famed communist hunter Joseph Mc Carthy, and he was investigated by the Committee of Un-American activities.

Shapley was later cleared of any wrong doing, but it almost cost him the directorship of the Harvard College Observatory. Shapley became a prodigious writer for the general public so they could understand and appreciate the wonders of the universe.

Resistencia : un año en el espacio (Ciencia y Tecnología)

Scott Kelly

Great Astronomers: William Parsons Illustrated

Robert Stawell Ball

The Scientific Revolution: The Life and Legacy of Johannes Kepler

Charles River Editors

" We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. " - Johannes Kepler

Just trying to define a man who had the qualities of a mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, inventor, and astrologer can prove difficult. But all of that can be ascribed to Johannes Kepler, one of the giants of his era who ushered in the Scientific Revolution and is often considered the first modern scientist.

Kepler stood at a moment in time when the intellectual worldview of most in northern Europe was medieval in nature, influenced mostly by spirituality, mysticism, religion, and metaphysics. Kepler, however, was far-thinking in his outlook, taking advantages of the latest technological ideas from the Renaissance and the new translations of Greco-Roman philosophers from out of the Spanish kingdoms and the former-Byzantine Empire. Kepler himself struggled with the seemingly incongruous division between metaphysics and empiricism. By practicing empiricism and coming up with his famous laws of planetary motion, he was forced to defend his positions against a number of important ideas in western philosophy and the contemporary understanding of nature and the cosmos. All the while, Kepler was never able to escape the medieval mind he possessed, and he looked for God in the designs of the cosmos, thus attempting to wed the supernatural to the physical.

Galileo Galilei: Biografie Storiche

Roberta Dalessandro

Clyde Tombaugh: Discoverer of Planet Pluto (Sky & Telescope Observer's Guides)

David Levy

Isaac Newton: The True And Surprising Story Of The Life Of Sir Isaac Newton (History Books) (English Edition)

Autor: Tom King

Introducing Newton: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides) (English Edition)

Autor: William Rankin