Comets, Cosmology and the Big Bang: A history of astronomy from Edmond Halley to Edwin Hubble

Name: Comets, Cosmology and the Big Bang: A history of astronomy from Edmond Halley to Edwin Hubble
Brand: SPCK Publishing
SKU: 9780745980317
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By (author): Allan Chapman

This book will take the story of astronomy on from where Allan Chapman left it in Stargazers, and bring it almost up to date, with the developments and discoveries of the last three centuries. He covers the big names - Halley, Hooke, Herschel, Hubble and Hoyle; and includes the women who pushed astronomy forward, from Caroline Herschel to the Victorian women astronomers. He includes the big discoveries and the huge ideas, from the Milky War, to the Big Bang, the mighty atom, and the question of life on other planets. And he brings in the contributions made in the US, culminating in their race with the USSR to get a man on the moon, before turning to the explosion of interest in astronomy that was pioneered by Sir Patrick Moore and The Sky at Night. See more

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Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
Publication Date: 23 Nov 2018
Publisher: SPCK Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780745980317

About Allan Chapman

Dr Allan Chapman is a historian of science at Oxford University with special interests in the history of astronomy and of medicine and the relationship between science and Christianity. As well as University teaching he lectures widely has written a dozen books and numerous academic articles and written and presented two TV series Gods in the Sky and Great Scientists besides taking part in many other history of science TV documentaries and in The Sky at Night with Sir Patrick Moore. He has received honorary doctorates and awards from the Universities of Central Lancashire Salford and Lancaster and in 2015 was presented with the Jackson-Gwilt Medal by the Royal Astronomical Society. Among his books are Slaying the Dragons. Destroying Myths in the History of Science and Faith (Lion Hudson 2013) Stargazers: Copernicus Galileo the Telescope and the Church. The Astronomical Renaissance 1500-1700 (Lion 2014) and Physicians Plagues and Progress. The History of Western Medicine from Antiquity to Antibiotics (Lion 2016). He is also the author of the scientific biographies England's Leonardo. Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth-Century Scientific Revolution (Institute of Physics 2005) Mary Somerville and the World of Science (Canopus 2004; Springer 2015) and The Victorian Amateur Astronomer. Independent Astronomical Research in Britain 1820-1920 (Wiley-Praxis 1998; revised edn. Gracewing 2017).