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20%OFFPriyamvada Natarajan - Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos - 9780300227031 - V9780300227031
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Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos

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Description for Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 color + 33 b/w illus. BIC Classification: PGK; PHVB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
For all curious readers, a lively introduction to radical ideas and discoveries that are transforming our knowledge of the universe This book provides a tour of the greatest hits of cosmological discoveries-the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter. Priyamvada Natarajan, our guide to these ideas, is someone at the forefront of the research-an astrophysicist who literally creates maps of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300227031
SKU
V9780300227031
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About Priyamvada Natarajan
Priyamvada Natarajan is professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University and holds the Sophie and Tycho Brahe Professorship at the Dark Center, Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and an honorary professorship at the University of Delhi, India.

Reviews for Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
Priyamvada Natarajan is a professor of physics and astronomy at Yale, who has spent her life investigating dark matter, dark energy and black holes. In Mapping the Heavens, she stands back and presents a broad picture of our slow advance in measuring and then interpreting the complexity of the universe... Considering humanity in relation to the universe, Natarajan explains ... Read more

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