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Natural History of the Universe: From the Big Bang to the End of Time
Natural History of the Universe From the Big Bang to the End of Time Author:Colin A. Ronan This book pairs one of the world's leading astronomers with dazzling graphics, and in doing so creates the most understandable, beautiful, and up-to-the-minute work ever written on the heavens. — In everyday language, 'The Natural History of the Universe' explains the story of the cosmos: its birth, its life, and its possible future. With sophist... more »icated illustrations and the very latest in space imagery, it makes clear both fundamental concepts and great events over the fifteen-thousand-million-year history of the universe.
The book is elegantly organized into three parts, each composed of double-paged spreads that explore a topic and richly illuminate it with photographs and exquisite full-color drawings. Together they make up a work that is at once comprehensive, authoritative, and spectacular. Part I, Creation of the Universe, depicts the origins of the universe and explains basic universal laws such as relativity, space and time, and quantum theory. Part II, The Grand Design, surveys the universe today: the galaxies and stars, our solar system. moons and rings, pulsars and quasars, black holes-their origins, their composition, their behavior. Part III, The Living Universe, delves into importance of life, examining the qualities that make living things unique and speculating on the future of the universe and on the possibilities of life beyond Earth.
As scientists put forth mind-boggling new theories and space probes send back a ceaseless stream of new data, the study of cosmic history seems at once ever more mysterious and more revealed. 'The Natural History of the Universe' takes readers on an exciting, colorful guided tour through both the mysteries and the revelations of current scientific knowledge. In so doing, it feeds the eye and brain, and sends the imagination soaring.« less
ISBN-13: 9780026045117 ISBN-10: 0026045117 Publication Date: 9/1991 Pages:212 Edition:1st American Ed Rating: