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Stars and Galaxies (With Cd-Rom and Infotrac
Stars and Galaxies With CdRom and Infotrac Author:Seeds, Michael A. Seeds This text is one of two splits from Seeds' FOUNDATIONS OF ASTRONOMY. It contains the introductory and historical astronomy chapters from FOUNDATIONS, as well as all the chapters on stars, galaxies, and cosmology, plus the last chapter in FOUNDATIONS, "Life on Other Worlds." This book teaches stellar astronomy not just by presenting facts, ... more »but by building a conceptual framework and then letting the facts fit into that framework. It uses astronomy to show how science works and how physics prescribes the universe.« less