| Description |
x, 406 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Collection of twenty Milne lectures, which started in 1977. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Comets: a matter of life and death (1977) / Sir Fred Hoyle -- Gravitation, ancient eclipses, and mountains (1978) / R.A. Lyttleton -- E.A. Milne: his part in the development of modern astrophysics (1979) / S. Chandrasekhar -- Our universe and others (1980) Sir Martin J. Rees -- Astrology, religion and science (1981) / T.G. Cowling -- The origin of cosmic rays (1982) / Sir Arnold Wofendale -- Statistics, geometry and the cosmos (1983) / David G. Kendall -- The earth's atmoshpere: ideas old and new (1984) / D.G. King-Hele -- Time, vacuum and cosmos (1985) / Sir William McCrea -- The age of the observable universe (1986) / W.A. Fowler -- Geometry, topology and physics (1987) / Sir Michael Atiyah -- Polarization: its message in astronomy (1988) / V. Radhakrishnan -- Carbon: the element of life: what is its origin on Earth? (1989) / T. Gold -- Cosmology and particle physics: a new synthesis (1990) / D.W. Sciama -- Hunting for comets and planets (1991) / Freeman J. Dyson -- Modern cosmology: a critical assessment (1992) / Malcolm S. Longair -- Binary pulsars and relativistic gravity (1993) / J.H. Taylor -- Taking the measure of the universe (1994) / Robert P Kirshner -- Observing the Big Bang (1995) / J.C. Mather -- The complexity of our singular universe (1996) / Sir Roger Penrose. |
| Subject |
Astronomy.
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Astrophysics.
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Cosmology.
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| Added Author |
Bondi, Hermann.
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Weston-Smith, Miranda.
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| ISBN |
0198511884 hardbound |
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