Discovering the universe
(2018)

Nonfiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Enslow Publishing, LLC, 2018
Made available through hoopla
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9780766093164 (electronic bk.) MWT12172256, 0766093166 (electronic bk.) 12172256
LANGUAGE
English
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Early humans turned what they could see above them into rich creation myths. Later philosophers created cosmologies that pushed myth closer toward empiricism. The flat disc universe yielded to celestial spheres, and the stationary Earth at the center of it all yielded to a spinning planet in a heliocentric solar system that was one of only untold hundreds of billions of solar systems in hundreds of billions of galaxies. This expansion of the cosmos was further revolutionized by theoretical physics, including the theory of relativity. The mind-expanding history of humanity's understanding of the universe is related here with gorgeous full-color photographs, captivating primary source imagery, and loads of capsule information and infographics

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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