Astronomically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Astronomy and PhysicsC.C. Gaither, Alma E Cavazos-Gaither CRC Press, 1 авг. 2003 г. - Всего страниц: 545 To understand the history, accomplishments, failures, and meanings of astronomy requires a knowledge of what has been said about astronomy by philosophers, novelists, playwrights, poets, scientists, and laymen. With this in mind, Astronomically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Astronomy and Physics serves as a guide to what has been said abo |
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... experience of ages may be preserved by quotations. Disraeli, Isaac Curiosities of Literature Somewhere we had read, “How often we rake in the litter of the printing press whilst a crown of gold and rubies is offered us in vain”. It has ...
... experience of ages may be preserved by quotations. Disraeli, Isaac Curiosities of Literature Somewhere we had read, “How often we rake in the litter of the printing press whilst a crown of gold and rubies is offered us in vain”. It has ...
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... experienced scientist. The general reader with no knowledge of astronomy who reads Astronomically Speaking can form a pretty accurate picture of what astronomy is. Students can use the book to increase their understanding of the ...
... experienced scientist. The general reader with no knowledge of astronomy who reads Astronomically Speaking can form a pretty accurate picture of what astronomy is. Students can use the book to increase their understanding of the ...
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... human life, the unique appeal of astronomy is incommunicable; easily understood through direct experience, but not to be precisely defined or explained. Nor should any explanation be thought necessary. The area of astronomy. 22 Astronomy.
... human life, the unique appeal of astronomy is incommunicable; easily understood through direct experience, but not to be precisely defined or explained. Nor should any explanation be thought necessary. The area of astronomy. 22 Astronomy.
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... experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our ... experienced by all mankind, a kind of motherhood in the stars to those who study space. A Complete Manual of Amateur ...
... experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our ... experienced by all mankind, a kind of motherhood in the stars to those who study space. A Complete Manual of Amateur ...
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Meteor | 188 |
Milky Way | 192 |
Mind | 195 |
Model | 198 |
Molecule | 199 |
Momentum | 200 |
Moon | 201 |
Moon Landing | 206 |
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Axiom | 43 |
Beauty | 44 |
Big Bang | 48 |
Black Hole | 50 |
Book | 52 |
Celestial Motion | 54 |
Chance | 55 |
Change | 56 |
Chaos | 57 |
Comet | 58 |
Communication | 63 |
Compulsory | 64 |
Concept | 65 |
Constellation | 67 |
Cosmochemistry | 75 |
Cosmogny | 76 |
Cosmology | 77 |
Cosmos | 79 |
Creation | 81 |
Curiosity | 82 |
Untitled | 84 |
Data | 85 |
Depletion | 86 |
Design | 87 |
Determinism | 88 |
Differential Equations | 89 |
Dimension | 91 |
Discovery | 92 |
Distance | 96 |
Dogma | 97 |
Dust | 98 |
Eclipse | 100 |
Electron | 104 |
Ellipse | 105 |
Energy | 106 |
Equation | 109 |
Error | 110 |
Eternity | 111 |
Event | 113 |
Experiment | 114 |
Extraterrestrial Life | 115 |
Fact | 124 |
Force | 128 |
Formula | 129 |
Fusion | 130 |
Future | 131 |
Galaxy | 132 |
Geometry | 134 |
God | 136 |
Grain | 140 |
Gravitational Lens | 141 |
Gravity | 142 |
Heavens | 144 |
Hypothesis | 148 |
Idea | 150 |
Ignorance | 152 |
Imagination | 153 |
Impossible | 157 |
Infinite | 158 |
Instrument | 161 |
Interaction | 164 |
Knowledge | 165 |
Laws | 169 |
Learn | 172 |
Life | 173 |
Light | 175 |
Logic | 177 |
Magnetic | 179 |
Man | 180 |
Matter | 182 |
Measurement | 184 |
Mechanics | 185 |
Mere | 186 |
Metaphor | 187 |
Motion | 208 |
Muon | 210 |
Nature | 211 |
Neutrino | 217 |
Night | 218 |
Notation | 220 |
Novae | 221 |
Observation | 222 |
Observatory | 228 |
Observer | 229 |
Order | 230 |
Other Worlds | 232 |
Paradox | 233 |
Particle | 234 |
Past | 236 |
Patterns | 237 |
Phenomenon | 239 |
Philosophy | 241 |
Photons | 244 |
Physicist | 245 |
Physics | 248 |
Pion | 256 |
Planet | 257 |
Position | 268 |
Problem | 269 |
Progress | 271 |
Proof | 273 |
Quantum | 277 |
Quasar | 280 |
Question | 281 |
Radio Astronomy | 283 |
Reality | 285 |
Reason | 288 |
Red Shift | 290 |
Relativity | 292 |
Research | 293 |
Scattering | 294 |
Science | 295 |
Scientific | 308 |
Scientist | 310 |
Senses | 312 |
Shadow | 313 |
Simplicity | 315 |
Sky | 317 |
Solar System | 321 |
Space | 323 |
Spacetime | 328 |
Space Travel | 330 |
Spectra | 334 |
Spin | 336 |
Spiral Arms | 337 |
Star | 338 |
Study | 354 |
Stupidity | 355 |
Sun | 356 |
Sunspot | 360 |
Supernova | 361 |
Symmetry | 363 |
Teach | 365 |
Telescope | 366 |
Theory | 371 |
Thermodynamics | 376 |
Time | 378 |
Time Travel | 382 |
Truth | 383 |
UFO | 385 |
Uncertainty | 386 |
Understand | 387 |
Universe | 389 |
Unknown | 416 |
Vacuum | 418 |
Vernal Equinox | 419 |
Vernier | 420 |
Wave | 421 |
Wisdom | 422 |
Work | 423 |
World | 424 |
Writing | 426 |
Bibliography | 428 |
Permissions | 460 |
Subject By Author Index | 466 |
Author By Subject Index | 521 |
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