Celestial Treasury: From the Music of the Spheres to the Conquest of Space

Lachieze-Rey, Marc; Jean-Pierre Luminet

ISBN 10: 0521800404 / ISBN 13: 9780521800402

Edité par Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001

A propos de cet article

207 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light rubbing and curling to dust jacket, otherwise clean bright copy. Color illustrations throughout. Large book. Record # 4450166.

N° de réf. du vendeur 4450166

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Celestial Treasury: From the Music of the Spheres to the Conquest of Space
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521800404
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521800402
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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Synopsis

A breathtaking survey of the richness of astronomical theories and illustrations through the ages.

À propos des auteurs

Marc Lachièze-Rey is a director of research at the Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique and astrophysicist at the Centre d'Etudes de Saclay. He is the author of the The Cosmic Background Radiation (1999), and Cosmology: A First Course (1995), both published by Cambridge University Press, and The Quest for Unity published by Oxford University Press (1999), as well as many books in French.

Jean-Pierre Luminet is a research director of the Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, based at the Paris-Meudon observatory. In addition to many research papers in cosmology, the structure of space-time and relativistic astrophysics, he has written several popular science articles and books (including Black Holes, Cambridge University Press, 1992), as well as science documentaries for television. Beyond his outstanding scientific research, he is also a renowned expert in the history of cosmology, and astronomical art and poetry. His first novel, Le rendez-vous de Vénus, was published in 1999 by JC Lattès.