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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Edward Robert Harrison |
| ISBN: | 052166148X 9780521661485 |
| OCLC Number: | 40632707 |
| Description: | x, 567 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. -- [ch.] 1. What is cosmology? -- [ch.] 2. Early scientific cosmology -- [ch.] 3. Cartesian and Newtonian world systems -- [ch.] 4. Cosmology after Newton and before Einstein -- [ch.] 5. Stars -- [ch.] 6. Galaxies -- [ch.] 7. Location and the cosmic center -- [ch.] 8. Containment and the cosmic edge -- [ch.] 9. Space and time -- pt. 2. -- [ch.] 10. Curved space -- [ch.] 11. Special relativity -- [ch.] 12. General relativity -- [ch.] 13. Black holes -- [ch.] 14. Expansion of the universe -- [ch.] 15. Redshifts -- [ch.] 16. Newtonian cosmology -- [ch.] 17. The cosmic box -- [ch.] 18. The many universes -- [ch.] 19. Observational cosmology -- pt. 3. -- [ch.] 20 The early universe -- [ch.] 21. Horizons in the universe -- [ch.] 22. Inflation -- [ch.] 23. The cosmic numbers -- [ch.] 24. Darkness at night -- [ch.] 25. Creation of the universe -- [ch.] 26. Life in the universe -- appendix. Fundamental quantities. |
| Responsibility: | Edward Harrison. |
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