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" Time, space, stars & man : "
Michael M. Woolfson, University of York, UK
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BL
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603384
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b432603
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| Main Entry
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Woolfson, M. M
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| Title & Author
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Time, space, stars man : : the story of the big bang /\ Michael M. Woolfson, University of York, UK
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| Edition Statement
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2nd edition
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xviii, 477 pages :: illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ;; 24 cm
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9781848169333
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: 1848169337
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: 9781848169340 (pbk.)
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: 1848169345 (pbk.)
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| Notes
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Includes index
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| Contents
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Musing -- [Part I.] The universe. Christian Doppler and his effect -- Measuring distances in the universe -- Edwin Hubble's expanding universe -- A weird and wonderful universe -- [Part II.] Matter and the universe. The nature of matter -- The big-bang hypothesis -- How matter can clump together -- The universe develops structure -- [Part III.] 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 stars -- A crowded environment -- [Part IV.] 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 -- [Part V.] 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 -- [Part VI.] 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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Big bang theory
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| Dewey Classification
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523.1/8
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QB991.B54W66 2013
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Time, space, stars and man
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