Cosmos

A Field Guide

Giles Sparrow (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2012
Quercus Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78087-728-0 (ISBN)

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A deluxe editon of the biggest and best ever reproduction of the Space Age's most remarkable images.

A landmark in popular science publishing, Cosmos is a giant-format account of the ultimate journey - a 13.7-billion-light-year- (or 130-billion-trillion kilometre-) voyage from our world, past planets, moons, stars, nebulae, white dwarfs and black holes, right through the to the edge of the universe and the beginning of time. Including some of science's most spectacular photographs, an accessible introduction by Dava Sobel and commentary by Giles Sparrow, this luxurious hand-finished and slipcased volume will fascinate and inform in equal measure.

Giles Sparrow studied Astronomy at University College London, and works as an editor specializing in popular science. He is the author of - amongst other books - The Genius Test, The Universe and How To See It, The Stargazer's Handbook and Hubble: Window on the Universe and was a major contributor to Dorling Kindersley's Universe.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.11.2012
Einführung	Dava Sobel
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	360 x 440 mm
Gewicht	4445 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	1-78087-728-5 / 1780877285
ISBN-13	978-1-78087-728-0 / 9781780877280
Zustand	Neuware