By Donald G. York,Owen Gingerich,Shuang-Nan Zhang
Some four hundred years after the 1st recognized patent software for a telescope by way of Hans Lipperhey, The Astronomy Revolution: four hundred Years of Exploring the Cosmos surveys the results of this software and explores the questions that experience arisen out of clinical study in astronomy and cosmology. encouraged by way of the foreign New imaginative and prescient 400 convention held in Beijing in October 2008, this interdisciplinary quantity brings jointly improved and up to date contributions from 26 esteemed convention audio system and invited others. having a look past questions of technological know-how to the position of ethical accountability in human civilizations, the publication deals the original vantage issues of contributions from either japanese and Western cultures.
Extensively illustrated in complete colour, this publication contains six components. aimed toward younger scientists, the 1st half offers views on creativity and know-how in medical discovery. within the moment half, individuals research how the telescope has impacted our wisdom of the Universe—from the formation of galaxies to the dying of stars. The 3rd a part of the booklet outlines a few of the demanding situations we are facing in figuring out darkish subject, darkish power, black holes, and cosmic rays, and the fourth half discusses new applied sciences that might be beneficial in attacking new and unresolved questions. The 5th a part of the ebook examines the highbrow impression that the telescope has had on society in China and within the West.
The booklet concludes with an research of "big questions": What is the beginning of the legislation of physics as we all know them? Are those legislation an identical in all places? How do those clinical legislation relate to the ethical legislation of society? Does what we all know depend upon cultural methods of asking the questions? Is there lifestyles somewhere else? And what concerning the questions that technology can't solution? Celebrating the ancient value of the telescope, this precise publication seeks to encourage all these concerned or drawn to the company of astronomy as humankind keeps the search to unveil the heavens.
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