This comprehensive encyclopedia covers the full history of astronomy from its ancient origins in Africa, South America, the Middle East and China to the latest developments in astrophysics and space-based research.
In a series of 50 accessible essays the author introduces and explains the fundamental physical concepts and laws that govern the inners workings of our universe.
Textbooks and learning objects to support post-secondary learning for physics and astronomy.
Very Short Introductions
These pocket-sized books written by expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable. Also include bibliographies.
Provides an overview of how modern observational astronomy is revealing the mysteries of the Universe. Also covers the new astronomies based on observations of cosmic neutrinos and gravitational waves. These, allied with with traditional astronomical methods, offer highly informative multi-messenger pictures of the Universe.
Traces the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the mid-nineteenth century and the technical developments since the Second World War.
Provides an overview of how this pervasive science came to be and how it works. It presents the theories and outcomes of pure and applied physics from ideas of the Greek natural philosophers to modern quantum mechanics, cosmology, digital electronics, and energy production.
Discusses the features and functions of particles such as quarks, electrons, and neutrinos, and of gluons and bosons. It includes the key role and significance of the Higgs boson in moulding these foundational elements and giving structure to matter. It highlights how discoveries in particle physics were made and have radically changed understanding of the material universe.
Explores the core topics of philosophy of physics through three key themes: the nature of space and time; the origin of irreversibility and probability in the physics of large systems; how we can make sense of quantum mechanics.