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Astronomy in Depth

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Gerald North
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  • Written for pre-university students and includes numerical examples

  • Perfect for beginning amateur astronomers who want to take a methodical approach

  • Covers every aspect of astronomy in surprising depth for such a succinct book

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Spaceship Earth

    • Gerald North
    Pages 1-8

  3. The Language of Starlight

    • Gerald North
    Pages 9-26

  4. The Moon

    • Gerald North
    Pages 27-39

  5. The Universal Force

    • Gerald North
    Pages 40-50

  6. The Inferior Planets

    • Gerald North
    Pages 51-60

  7. The Planet Mars

    • Gerald North
    Pages 61-72

  8. The Planet Jupiter

    • Gerald North
    Pages 73-82

  9. The Planet Saturn

    • Gerald North
    Pages 83-91

  10. The Twilight Zone of the Solar System

    • Gerald North
    Pages 92-99

  11. The Debris of the Solar System

    • Gerald North
    Pages 100-106

  12. The Comets

    • Gerald North
    Pages 107-114

  13. The Sun

    • Gerald North
    Pages 115-127

  14. The Celestial Sphere and Time

    • Gerald North
    Pages 128-145

  15. The Stars

    • Gerald North
    Pages 146-158

  16. Gas, Dust, Stars and Variable Stars

    • Gerald North
    Pages 159-172

  17. Stellar Evolution

    • Gerald North
    Pages 173-183

  18. Brown Dwarfs and Extra-Solar Planets

    • Gerald North
    Pages 184-189

  19. Violent Stars

    • Gerald North
    Pages 190-197

  20. The Galaxies

    • Gerald North
    Pages 198-209
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About this book

Astronomy in Depth fills the need for a textbook that covers pre-university level Astronomy courses (in the UK, the GCSE syllabuses) and provides numerical examples to help students. It is also written as a serious foundation in Astronomy for amateurs who want to take a more detailed approach than can be found in the bulk of introductory astronomy books. Almost every aspect of astronomy is considered, from Earth and its place in the solar system, through instrumentation, the planets, stars, and galaxies, to black holes and the beginnings of cosmology. This book is perfect for anyone who wants to get to know astronomy in detail, as quickly as possible.

Reviews

The numerical work is really quite simple and basic, and should frighten nobody who has a genuine wish to learn a little more than might be gleaned from one of the many coffee-table books covering similar ground…This is a useful book for students, and would also suit the teacher who may touch on astronomical topics during a science course. The style and content will allow the text to be revised in years to come as new discoveries and theories prove to make this necessary, and at a cost that is very appropriate for the target market.

--Gnomon, Newsletter of the Association for Astronomy Education

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Astronomy in Depth

  • Authors: Gerald North

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-426-5

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-85233-580-9Published: 31 October 2002

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-85729-426-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 230

  • Number of Illustrations: 194 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques

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