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Télécharger le livre : 100 Years of Planetaria
Katherine Boyce-Jacino , Matthew Mcmahon , Pedro M. P. Raposo , Mike Smail
100 Years of Planetaria
This book marks the centenary of the remarkable invention of an opto-mechanical planetarium projector, the Zeiss Mk I. In May 1925, the first public planetarium opened at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. In the ensuing decades, this invention spread all over the world,...
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Parution : 2025-01-30
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Télécharger le livre : From Radio-phobia to Radio-euphoria
Ilya Obodovskiy
From Radio-phobia to Radio-euphoria
This book gives a detailed discussion of the initial enthusiasm triggered by the discovery of x-rays and radioactive radiation which later turned into fear and repulsion in a significant part of the global population up to the 21st century.After a historical review, the...
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Parution : 2023-12-11
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Télécharger le livre : Music and Astronomy
Maurizio Agrò
Music and Astronomy
This book explores the profound and ancient relationship between music and astronomy. Throughout history, Music has occupied a significant place among the disciplines of the Quadrivium, which also include Geometry, Arithmetic, and Astronomy. The captivating bond between...
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Parution : 2023-12-04
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Télécharger le livre : Japan In Space
Brian Harvey
Japan In Space
Guided by genius engineer Hideo Itokawa, Japan’s space program began with small scientific satellites more than 50 years ago. Since then, its space probes have travelled to the Moon, Venus, the asteroids and even a comet. The country launched weather satellites to warn...
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Parution : 2023-11-16
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Télécharger le livre : Planet Earth, Past and Present
Michael Carroll
Planet Earth, Past and Present
The Earth is not the world it once was, and it is not the world it will always be.   This book describes the exciting, complex, and occasionally baffling history of our own planet. Over the course of its 4.5 billion years, Earth has undergone astonishing...
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Parution : 2023-10-18
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Télécharger le livre : Spacecraft that Explored the Inner Planets Venus and Mercury
Thomas Lund
Spacecraft that Explored the Inner Planets Venus and Mercury
A series of increasingly capable spacecraft were sent to explore the inner planets Venus and Mercury. The history of that planetary exploration is traced in this book along with the evolution of sophisticated spacecraft that unveiled long-sought secrets of the planets....
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Parution : 2023-07-03
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Télécharger le livre : America's First Eclipse Chasers
Thomas Hockey
America's First Eclipse Chasers
In 2017, over 200 million Americans witnessed the spectacular total eclipse of the Sun, and the 2024 eclipse is expected to draw even larger crowds.In anticipation of this upcoming event, this book takes us back in history over 150 years, telling the story of the...
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Parution : 2023-05-27
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Télécharger le livre : To The Stars
Umberto Cavallaro
To The Stars
This book is the second edition of Women Spacefarers and tells the fascinating stories of the valiant women who broke down barriers to join the space program. Beginning with the orbital flight of USSR cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and continuing to the...
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Parution : 2023-05-23
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Télécharger le livre : Genius
Roberto Manzocco
Genius
Genius is a fascinating topic. Everyone has an opinion on it, but not a lot of clarity. Much has been written on the subject - biographies, autobiographies,  technical books, popular science books, and practical manuals - but genius in all of its dimensions has yet...
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Parution : 2023-04-02
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Télécharger le livre : Gemini 5
David J. Shayler
Gemini 5
This third book of the Gemini mission series focuses on the flight that simulated in Earth orbit the duration of an eight-day Apollo mission to the Moon. After the proof-of-concept test flights Gemini 1, 2 and 3 (as described in GEMINI FLIES!) and the success of...
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Parution : 2023-03-07
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Télécharger le livre : The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner's Guide to Settling the Red Planet
Justin B. Hollander
The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner's Guide to Settling the Red Planet
Hundreds of novels, films, and TV shows have speculated about what it would be like for us Earthlings to build cities on Mars. To make it a reality, however, these dreamers are in sore need of additional conceptual tools in their belt—particularly, a rich knowledge...
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Parution : 2023-02-01
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Télécharger le livre : A Brief History of Nuclear Reactor Accidents
Serge Marguet
A Brief History of Nuclear Reactor Accidents
Are you afraid of a nuclear reactor accident? Should you be? This book will arm you with the scientific knowledge necessary to make a rational and informed opinion on the subject, without having to be an expert in nuclear physics. Written so that a non-specialist can...
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Parution : 2023-01-23
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Télécharger le livre : Human Missions to Mars
Donald Rapp
Human Missions to Mars
In this book, Donald Rapp looks at human missions to Mars from a technological perspective. He divides the mission into a number of stages: Earth’s surface to low-Earth orbit (LEO); departing from LEO toward Mars; Mars orbit insertion and entry, descent and landing;...
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Parution : 2023-01-01
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Télécharger le livre : The Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program
Davide Sivolella
The Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program
In September 1969, several months after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Richard M. Nixon established the Space Task Force to chart NASA’s path for the decades to come. This imaginative vision was shattered less than six months later when, on January 13, 1970,...
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Parution : 2022-11-26
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Télécharger le livre : NASA's Voyager Missions
Ben Evans
NASA's Voyager Missions
2022 marks the 45th anniversary of the Voyager probe launches. Launched into space in 1977, these twin probes explored the farthest reaches of the Solar System before venturing on a one-way journey beyond, all the while testing the bounds of science, robotic exploration...
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Parution : 2022-08-23
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Télécharger le livre : Solar Surveyors
Peter Bond
Solar Surveyors
This is the story of humankind’s quest over centuries to learn the true nature of the most dominant object in our Solar System: the Sun.Award-winning science writer Peter Bond describes in detail how our ideas about the Sun have changed over the millennia, starting with...
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Parution : 2022-07-29
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Télécharger le livre : Saints and Sinners in the Sky: Astronomy, Religion and Art in Western Culture
Michael Mendillo
Saints and Sinners in the Sky: Astronomy, Religion and Art in Western Culture
In this book, Boston University Professor of Astronomy Michael Mendillo takes readers deep into the annals of history, showing how visual depictions of the heavens evolved in tandem with science and religion throughout much of Western culture. With unprecedented scope...
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Parution : 2022-04-04
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Télécharger le livre : Investigating Art, History, and Literature with Astronomy
Donald W. Olson
Investigating Art, History, and Literature with Astronomy
How can shadows determine the date and time of a painting by Johannes Vermeer?How did the Moon and tides cause the loss of King John’s crown jewels? In his newest book, Professor Olson, author of Celestial Sleuth and Further Adventures of the Celestial Sleuth, explores...
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Parution : 2022-03-17
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Télécharger le livre : Imaging Our Solar System: The Evolution of Space Mission Cameras and Instruments
Bernard Henin
Imaging Our Solar System: The Evolution of Space Mission Cameras and Instruments
As we speak, stunning new snapshots of our Solar System are being transmitted to Earth by a fleet of space probes, landers, and rovers. Yet nowadays, it is all too easy to take such images for granted amidst the deluge of competing visuals we scroll through every day....
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Parution : 2022-01-28
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Télécharger le livre : Spacelab Payloads
Michael E. Haddad , David J. Shayler
Spacelab Payloads
Spacelab was a reusable laboratory facility that was flown on the Space Shuttle from 1983 to 1998. Completing 22 major missions and contributing to many other NASA goals,Spacelab stands as one of the Shuttle program’s most resounding successes. The system comprised...
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Parution : 2022-01-22
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