Astronomy, Space & Time

Exploring the potential for extraterrestrial life and the origins of our own planet, this comprehensive introduction to astrobiology is updated wit...

Exploring the potential for extraterrestrial life and the origins of our own planet, this comprehensive introduction to astrobiology is updated wit...

Astronomy, perhaps the first of the sciences, was already well developed by the time of Christ. Seventeen centuries later, after Newton showed that...

In The World as Idea Charles P. Webel presents an intellectual history of one of the most influential concepts known to humanity—that of "the world...

This book is a simple, non-technical introduction to cosmology, explaining what it is and what cosmologists do. Peter Coles discusses the history o...

Is there any connection between the vastness of the universes of stars and galaxies and the existence of life on a small planet out in the suburbs ...

Galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe: standing like islands in space, each is made up of many hundreds of millions of stars in which th...

Discoverers of the Universe tells the gripping story of William Herschel, the brilliant, fiercely ambitious, emotionally complex musician and compo...

General Relativity has passed all experimental and observational tests to model the motion of isolated bodies with strong gravitational fields, tho...

Galileo's telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when the heavens were thought to be per...

The Heavens on Earth explores the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science and culture. Astronomy was a core pursuit for observatorie...

For millennia humans have studied the skies to help them grow crops, navigate the seas, and earn favor from their gods. We still look to the stars ...

Awe-inspiring and familiar, comforting yet sometimes frightening, the sun is the center around which all life revolves. Now, an expert on solar ima...

This book is unique in the detailed, self-contained, and comprehensive treatment that it gives to the ideas and formulas that are used and tested i...

“This book will provide readers with a greater awareness of the spirit of curiosity and inquiry that lies at the heart of the Buddhist tradition, ...

Just what is it like living on board the International Space Station? Well, now you can find out in this fascinating book ... illustrations have ...

In this selection of studies, J.L. Mancha explores aspects of the development of medieval optics and astronomy, including some medieval antecedents...

This book focuses on the "Einstein Tower," an architecturally historic observatory built in Potsdam in 1920 to allow the German astronomer Erwin Fi...

The origin of the solar system has been a matter of speculation for many centuries, and since the time of Newton it has been possible to apply scie...

Stars are the building blocks of galaxies. Astoundingly, there are 4,000 million stars in our own Milky Way, and there are two million million gala...

One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead’s influential lectures that he del...

This collection of seventeen essays explores the implications of quantum cosmology regarding God’s action in the world. The result is a profound co...

In this new book, a distinguished panel makes recommendations for the nation's programs in astronomy and astrophysics, including a number of new in...

Recent advances in the understanding of star formation and evolution have been impressive and aspects of that knowledge are explored in this volume...

Written by an internationally renowned expert author and researcher, this monograph fills the need for a book conveying the sophisticated tools nee...

Recent advances in the understanding of star formation and evolution have been impressive and aspects of that knowledge are explored in this volume...

From an historical perspective, this text presents an entirely non- mathematical introduction to astronomy from the first endeavours of the ancient...

This is one of the most important studies in decades on Johannes Kepler, among the towering figures in the history of astronomy. Drawing extensivel...

The origin of the solar system has been a matter of speculation for many centuries, and since the time of Newton it has been possible to apply scie...

From the bestselling author of The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos takes us on an irresistible and revelatory journey thr...

This witty and amusing exploration of the physical universe explains fundamental concepts in language that is clear to anyone with little or no sci...

The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning gives the reader direct access to the foundational documents of the tradition of calculation created by astr...

Written by an award-winning cosmologist, this brand new textbook provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with coverage of the very la...

  The spectacular sequel to Ajay and the Mumbai Sun, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize!  Ajay's wish has c...

This book provides a comprehensive, critical study of the oldest and most famous argument for the existence of God: the Cosmological Argument. Prof...

The conquest of Earth's moon was merely a precursor to a more dramatic step forward, which will take men and women to an outpost that might eventua...

With the advent of the new millennium, the notion of the future, and of time in general, has taken on greater significance in postmodern thought. A...

From the patristic age until the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, computus – the science of time reckoning and art of calendar construction – was...

General relativity and quantum mechanics have become the two central pillars of theoretical physics. Moreover, general relativity has important app...

This book is a collection of contributions examining cosmology from multiple perspectives. It presents articles on traditional Native American and ...

Time is an illusion. Although the laws of physics create a powerful impression that time is flowing, in fact there are only timeless 'nows'. In THE...