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" Time, space, stars & man : "
Michael M. Woolfson
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BL
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603383
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b432602
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Woolfson, M. M
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Time, space, stars man : : the story of the big bang /\ Michael M. Woolfson
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2nd ed
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London, England :: Imperial College Press ;Singapore ;Hackensack, N.J. :: Distributed by World Scientific,, 2012
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xviii, 477 p. :: ill. (some col.) ;; 24 cm
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9781848169333
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: 1848169337
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9781283972154
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1283972158
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Previous ed.: 2008
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Includes index
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| Contents
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Musing -- The universe -- Christian Doppler and his effect -- Measuring distances in the universe -- Edwin Hubble's expanding universe -- A weird and wonderful universe -- Matter and the universe -- The nature of matter -- The big-bang hypothesis -- How matter can clump together -- The universe develops structure -- Stars, stellar clusters and galaxies -- The first stars are born, live and die -- The formation of globular clusters and galaxies -- Making the sun and similar stories -- The solar system -- Understanding the nature of the solar system -- Introducing the planets -- Satellites galore -- 'Vermin of the sky' and other small bodies -- Planets galore -- Forming the solar system -- Making planets -- Shrinking orbits and the survival of planetary systems -- Now satellites form -- What can be learnt from meteorites? -- A little-bang theory and the terrestrial planets -- The moon, its structure and history -- The very small planets, Mars and Mercury -- Smaller bodies of the solar system -- The origin of isotopic anomalies in meteorites -- Life on Earth -- The Earth settles down, more-or-less -- What is life? -- Forms of life -- Nineteenth century genetics, the survival of the fittest -- Twentieth century genetics, the alphabets of life -- Life begins on Earth -- The restless Earth -- Oxygen, ozone and life -- The evolution of life, from Archaea to early mammals -- Early mammals to man -- Man and the Earth -- Musing again
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Cosmology
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Earth (Planet)
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