American Astronomy
Title | American Astronomy PDF eBook |
Author | John Lankford |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 1997-05-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780226468860 |
Focusing on a period that saw fundamental changes in the nature and content of astronomy, including the rise of astrophysics, Lankford has compiled remarkable data, such as the number of people with and without doctorates, the number who taught in colleges or universities versus those involved in industrial or government work, and the number of women versus men. He also addresses the crucial question of power within the community - what it meant, which astronomers had it, and what they did with it.
Cosmic Horizons
Title | Cosmic Horizons PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Soter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9781565846029 |
Leading scientists offer a collection of essays that furnish illuminating explanations of recent discoveries in modern astrophysics--from the Big Bang to black holes--the possibility of life on other worlds, and the emerging technologies that make such research possible, accompanied by incisive profiles of such key figures as Carl Sagan and Georges Lemaetre. Original.
Chaco Astronomy
Title | Chaco Astronomy PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Sofaer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Chaco Culture National Historical Park (N.M.) |
ISBN | 9780943734460 |
Chaco Astronomy: An Ancient American Cosmology contains the remarkable findings of the past three decades of scientific and cultural investigations into the astronomical practices of the ancestral Puebloans -- people who built massive expressions of a remarkable world-view in the American Southwest. Compiled by Anna Sofaer and her Solstice Project team of geographers, astronomers, archaeologists, and Native scholars, the book includes nine compelling and detailed chapters, with photographs, charts, diagrams, appendices.
Laboratory Astrophysics
Title | Laboratory Astrophysics PDF eBook |
Author | Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2018-10-11 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 331990020X |
This book focuses on the most recent, relevant, comprehensive and significant aspects in the well-established multidisciplinary field Laboratory Astrophysics. It focuses on astrophysical environments, which include asteroids, comets, the interstellar medium, and circumstellar and circumplanetary regions. Its scope lies between physics and chemistry, since it explores physical properties of the gas, ice, and dust present in those systems, as well as chemical reactions occurring in the gas phase, the bare dust surface, or in the ice bulk and its surface. Each chapter provides the necessary mathematical background to understand the subject, followed by a case study of the corresponding system. The book provides adequate material to help interpret the observations, or the computer models of astrophysical environments. It introduces and describes the use of spectroscopic tools for laboratory astrophysics. This book is mainly addressed to PhD graduates working in this field or observers and modelers searching for information on ice and dust processes.
Solar System Astronomy in America
Title | Solar System Astronomy in America PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald E. Doel |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1996-02-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780521415736 |
This book, first published in 1996, examines how American scientists collaborated to better understand the solar system.
U.S. Astronomy and Astrophysics
Title | U.S. Astronomy and Astrophysics PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 94 |
Release | 2001-11-20 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0309183316 |
In its fiscal year 2002 budget summary document the Bush administration expressed concern-based in part on the findings and conclusions of two National Research Council studies-about recent trends in the federal funding of astronomy and astrophysics research. The President's budget blueprint suggested that now is the time to address these concerns and directed the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to establish a blue ribbon panel to (1) assess the organizational effectiveness of the federal research enterprise in astronomy and astrophysics, (2) consider the pros and cons of transferring NSF's astronomy responsibilities to NASA, and (3) suggest alternative options for addressing issues in the management and organization of astronomical and astrophysical research. NASA and NSF asked the National Research Council to carry out the rapid assessment requested by the President. This report, focusing on the roles of NSF and NASA, provides the results of that assessment.
Cultural Astronomy In Latin America
Title | Cultural Astronomy In Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Gullberg |
Publisher | World Scientific |
Pages | 423 |
Release | 2024-02-06 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9811281947 |
This book provides a unique view of Astronomy in Culture, Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy involving ancient civilizations in Latin America, emphasizing scientific and cultural knowledge combined with historical, cognitive, archaeological and anthropological aspects. Topics covered in the book include different associations of ancient civilizations with the stars and planets, whether in farming, architecture, social organization, beliefs, myths, religion, metric systems, calendar construction, shrines, and variations in astronomical research methods based on the types of material evidence available. Special attention is paid to the war cycles associated with observed celestial events, day-counting calendars, including movements in the sky and written evidences from codices, and in particular the Andean and Inca traditions of astronomically associated shrines, caves and celestial alignments of monuments and temples.