Based on the very popular liberal arts course Bob Bless has taught at University of Wisconsin for over twenty years, this book provides a rich, historical approach to introductory astronomy. It is ideal for use in an introductory astronomy course for nonmajors. An Instructor's Manual, test questions and transparencies are also available for adopting professors.
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An extremely well-written text. All of astronomy is presented here, in a comprehensive and up-to-date text. --Kenneth Janes, Boston University
This is a very solid astronomy text for undergraduate students. --harles J. Lada, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
The text is an excellent synthesis of an enormous topic. --Meteoritics & Planetary Society
This is a very solid astronomy text for undergraduate students. --harles J. Lada, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
The text is an excellent synthesis of an enormous topic. --Meteoritics & Planetary Society
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R.C. Bless is a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Bless' Discovering the Cosmos is an excellent introductory astronomy text for students with a more advanced preparation either in the physical sciences or in mathematics. The text focuses more towards the stellar and galactic aspects of modern astronomy though there are sections on historical astronomy and planetology. While the book is does not cover the up-to-the-minute advances in astronomy, this can easily be filled in with web-based sources that build upon the excellent foundational material.The book's great strength is that it doesn't shy away from using the science and mathematics a student who has competently passed a high school chemistry and algebra II class should have learned. While this limits the text's use in general introductory astronomy survey courses at the college level it makes for a much richer source for honors or advanced courses at either the college freshman or the high school senior level. Educators with a solid background in the sciences will find this text a treasure trove of information that can serve as a place to pull additional information when trying to understand or expand curriculum.
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This book has two objectives: first, to describe the leading ideas and concepts of modern astronomy; second, to indicate how astronomy in particular and science in general have developed, and the methods, goals, and limitations shared by both. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cosmological clues, stellar graveyard, angular altitude, recombination spectrum, intrinsic brightness, sidereal period, equatorial velocity, synodic period, trigonometric parallax, condensation sequence, supernova outburst, radio radiation, evolving star, expansion age, helium flash, radio object, central galaxy, early bombardment, perfect cosmological principle, solar masses, eastward motion, light variability, uniform circular motion, radio region, visible galaxy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Milky Way, Big Bang, New York, Scientific American, Cambridge University Press, Hubble Space Telescope, Large Magellanic Cloud, Middle Ages, Spectral Type Figure, Exclusion Principle, Great Red Spot, Hubble Gallery, World War, Tycho Brahe, Magellanic Clouds, Mount Wilson, The Beginnings Through Newton, Big Dipper, Great Wall, Soviet Union, Comet Shoemaker-Levy, Dover Publications, Garden City, Lord Rosse, New Mexico New!
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This book has two objectives: first, to describe the leading ideas and concepts of modern astronomy; second, to indicate how astronomy in particular and science in general have developed, and the methods, goals, and limitations shared by both. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cosmological clues, stellar graveyard, angular altitude, recombination spectrum, intrinsic brightness, sidereal period, equatorial velocity, synodic period, trigonometric parallax, condensation sequence, supernova outburst, radio radiation, evolving star, expansion age, helium flash, radio object, central galaxy, early bombardment, perfect cosmological principle, solar masses, eastward motion, light variability, uniform circular motion, radio region, visible galaxy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Milky Way, Big Bang, New York, Scientific American, Cambridge University Press, Hubble Space Telescope, Large Magellanic Cloud, Middle Ages, Spectral Type Figure, Exclusion Principle, Great Red Spot, Hubble Gallery, World War, Tycho Brahe, Magellanic Clouds, Mount Wilson, The Beginnings Through Newton, Big Dipper, Great Wall, Soviet Union, Comet Shoemaker-Levy, Dover Publications, Garden City, Lord Rosse, New Mexico New!
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