Astronomy, Space & Time

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...

A stunning collection of poetry on feminism, trauma, survival and empowerment.You cannot burn awayWhat has always been aflameWILD EMBERS explores t...

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

An all-new collection of first-rate science experiments! Are you having a hard time coming up with a good idea for the science fair? Do you want t...

This book provides an extensive survey of all the physics necessary to understand the current developments in the field of fundamental cosmology, a...

An all-new collection of first-rate science experiments! Are you having a hard time coming up with a good idea for the science fair? Do you want t...

Within the Office of Space Science of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) special importance is attached to exploration of the...

Have you ever wondered how the constellations got their names? Or wanted to know the stories of the gods and heroes immortalised in the night sky? ...

Throughout his distinguised career, Patrick Moore has, without a doubt, done more to raise the profile of astronomy amoung the British public than ...

Three key aspects of quantum gravity are considered in this book: phenomenology, potential experimental aspects and foundational theory. The phenom...

Nearly all information about the Universe comes from the study of light as it reaches us. However, understanding the information contained in this ...

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

Discovering the Solar System, Second Edition covers the Sun, the planets, their satellites and the host of smaller bodies that orbit the Sun. This ...

Efforts to uncover the explosion mechanism of core collapse supernovae and to understand all of their associated phenomena have been ongoing for ne...

Is there anybody out there? Is ET trying to phone home? In the past decade or so, astrobiology has come of age. Once regarded as a laughing stock -...

Most well-read, but non-scientific, people will have heard of the term “Big Bang” as a description of the origin of the Universe. They will recogni...

The book begins with a historical review of four major theories for the origin of the Solar System in particular, or of planets in general, which h...

This book serves as a good introduction to the physics of pulsars by explaining the subject matter in simple terms which are understandable to both...

Astrobiology - which studies the intimate relationship between life and the cosmos - is a fast-growing field that touches on aspects of cosmology, ...

Probing the depths of science and faith, scientist Chet Raymo investigates the mysteries of human spirituality and meaning contained in astronomy. ...

In About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution Paul Davies confronts the puzzles and paradoxes of time that have bemused the world's greatest thin...

This book describes some of the frontier problems of cosmology: our almost total ignorance of what the Universe is made up of, the mystery of its o...

'The content is presented in a colloquial style that is easy to understand and interesting to read. It is supported by numerous colour figures and ...

Hurtling through the atmosphere, in a blaze of light and reverberating percussions, the arrival of a meteorite on Earth is a magical, rare, and pre...

Cosmology, the study of the universe, arouses a great deal of public interest, with serious articles both in the scientific press and in major news...

This book offers a study of the three evolutions in a circle (cosmos, life, and knowledge) with the aim of discussing human social behavior, a meta...

Current anthropology uses expressions such as 'society as a whole', 'socio-cosmic relations', 'spatiotemporal extension', 'global ideology', and 'c...

This volume contains contributions to the workshop, which was largely focused on the strong coupling gauge theories in search for theories beyond t...

Stephen Hawking, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, has made important theoretical contributions to gravitational theor...

Evolutionary History in Theological Perspective: Exploring the Scientific Story of the Cosmos develops a new theological interpretation of evolutio...

'Cosmic Paradoxes' was an outcome of a Conference-Summer Course on 'Astrophysical Cosmology: Frontier Questions' held at El Escorial, Madrid, on Au...

The last decade has witnessed a breathtaking expansion of ideas concerning the origin and evolution of the universe. Researchers in cosmology thus ...

'Cosmic Paradoxes' was an outcome of a Conference-Summer Course on 'Astrophysical Cosmology: Frontier Questions' held at El Escorial, Madrid, on Au...

Astrophotonics is the application of photonics to astronomical instrumentation. It is a rapidly developing field that takes a new approach to inst...

Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. ...

Astrophotonics is the application of photonics to astronomical instrumentation. It is a rapidly developing field that takes a new approach to inst...

Despite remarkable advances in astronomy, space research, and related technology since the first edition of this book was published, the philosophy...