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by Marcia Bartusiak

  • ISBN: 0380724200
  • Category: Math & Science
  • Author: Marcia Bartusiak
  • Subcategory: Astronomy & Space Science
  • Other formats: rtf lit lrf txt
  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Avon Books (June 1, 1995)
  • FB2 size: 1139 kb
  • EPUB size: 1262 kb
  • Rating: 4.3
  • Votes: 870
Download Through a Universe Darkly/a Cosmic Tale of Ancient Ethers, Dark Matter, and the Fate of the Universe fb2

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Through a Universe Darkly book. The book shows how the quest for dark matter is the latest step in the long evolution of man's view of the cosmos. Bartusiak is the author of Thursday's Universe.

Bartusiak, Marcia, 1950-. Dark matter (Astronomy), Astronomy, Cosmology, cs, Cosmology, Dark matter (Astronomy), cs. New York : Avon Books. inlibrary; printdisabled; ; china. Books for People with Print Disabilities. Internet Archive Books. Uploaded by Tracey Gutierres on August 7, 2014.

The author of Thursday's Universe explores the phenomenon of dark matter, surveying speculation on this intriguing mystery throughout history . It's truly the HUMAN story of the heavens. It reads like a novel but teaches like a text. Thoroughly enjoyable, wonderfully informative.

The author of Thursday's Universe explores the phenomenon of dark matter, surveying speculation on this intriguing mystery throughout history and discussing. I read my copy at least once a year just to enjoy it again. Recently Viewed and Featured. Of Dreams and Tragedies.

With the number of portraits and interviews here, the book would have been as appropriately subtitled Lives of the Astronomers.

A compelling adventure and an engrossing history, Through a Universe Darkly introduces the men and women who are peering . Something more was out there, an unknown substance that came to be called dark matter.

Something more was out there, an unknown substance that came to be called dark matter.

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Conveying the tantalizing exhilaration of discovery that has driven astronomers for centuries, Through a Universe Darkly interweaves history, scientific personalities, and philosophy in an intoxicating story of the exploration of the universe's contents - most of all of dark matter, the mind-boggling, invisible substance that is changing our view of the universe.

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Through a universe darkly: a cosmic tale of ancient ethers, dark matter, and the fate of the universe. Books-Received - Through a Universe Darkly.

Marcia Frances Bartusiak, American Science writer. Avocations: travel, art, hiking, film, theater. F C. Recipient Science Writing award American Institute Physics, 1982, Astronomy Book of Year award Astronomical Society Pacific, 1987; Knight fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994-1995. Member National Association Science Writers, Authors Guild, Sigma Xi (associate).

An intoxicating saga of humanity's quest for knowledge of the universe's composition, from ancient Greece through Copernicus, Newton, and Einstein, and up to today's cutting edge scientists, this book is both a compelling history and an engrossing adventure. "Excellent."--Astronomy.

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