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Orbit: NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth
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This awe-inspiring collection of photographs gives those of us stuck on Earth a glimpse of what our home planet looks like from the window of a space craft... and the big blue marble has never looked more beautiful. All the continents are shown, as well as weather events, the Aurora borealis, and the visible effects of anthropogenic environmenta... »
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Masks of the Universe: Changing Ideas on the Nature of the Cosmos
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Harrison is a veteran scientific cosmologist. Now in his eighties, he offers his own personal perspective on the subject after many decades in the field. Much as John Wheeler (the great Princeton physicist now well over 90) was forced to look back on his subject after a recent heart attack, Harrison also takes a broader perspective on the subject.
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The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
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In 1970, Owen Gingerich set out to survey every surviving copy of Copernicus's book. His journey took him around the world and, eventually, took thirty years to complete.
This book is the story of that journey. In equal parts, Gingerich provides us with the biography of a book, some knowledge of the scientific knowledge it contains, an i... »
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Exploring Our Solar System
"Five billion years ago, a starship passing through our region of space would not have slowed down for a second look. There was nothing to see. No Earth, ... »
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Just Visiting This Planet
Merlin, a scholar visiting Earth from the planet Omniscia in the Andromeda galaxy, is familiar to readers of Star Date magazine, published by the M... »
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