National Geographic Encyclopedia of Space by Linda K. Glover
THIS COMPREHENSIVE, STATE-OF-THE-ART SPACE ENCYCLOPEDIA IS A FASCINATING account of our 5,000-year search for the secrets of the cosmos; and a detailed report on the many ways we put our knowledge of space to practical scientific, commercial, and military use. Highlighted by hundreds of stunning illustrations and photographs, diagrams, star charts, and more, as well as an authoritative, inclusive text and more than a dozen essays by leading scientists and space explorers, these pages introduce history's great astronomers and cosmologists and explain their discoveries...tour our own solar system and explore vast galaxies thousands of light-years away...trace the advance of scientific tools and space technology from the first telescopes to moon shots, satellite networks, orbital observatories, and more...peer billions of years into the past at the big bang and look forward into a future where the sky is truly the limit.
National Geographic Society 2005
ISBN: 0 7922 7319 2
Condition: Extremely Good, marks and minor scratches on dustcover
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THIS COMPREHENSIVE, STATE-OF-THE-ART SPACE ENCYCLOPEDIA IS A FASCINATING account of our 5,000-year search for the secrets of the cosmos; and a detailed report on the many ways we put our knowledge of space to practical scientific, commercial, and military use. Highlighted by hundreds of stunning illustrations and photographs, diagrams, star charts, and more, as well as an authoritative, inclusive text and more than a dozen essays by leading scientists and space explorers, these pages introduce history's great astronomers and cosmologists and explain their discoveries...tour our own solar system and explore vast galaxies thousands of light-years away...trace the advance of scientific tools and space technology from the first telescopes to moon shots, satellite networks, orbital observatories, and more...peer billions of years into the past at the big bang and look forward into a future where the sky is truly the limit.
National Geographic Society 2005
ISBN: 0 7922 7319 2
Condition: Extremely Good, marks and minor scratches on dustcover
BD
THIS COMPREHENSIVE, STATE-OF-THE-ART SPACE ENCYCLOPEDIA IS A FASCINATING account of our 5,000-year search for the secrets of the cosmos; and a detailed report on the many ways we put our knowledge of space to practical scientific, commercial, and military use. Highlighted by hundreds of stunning illustrations and photographs, diagrams, star charts, and more, as well as an authoritative, inclusive text and more than a dozen essays by leading scientists and space explorers, these pages introduce history's great astronomers and cosmologists and explain their discoveries...tour our own solar system and explore vast galaxies thousands of light-years away...trace the advance of scientific tools and space technology from the first telescopes to moon shots, satellite networks, orbital observatories, and more...peer billions of years into the past at the big bang and look forward into a future where the sky is truly the limit.
National Geographic Society 2005
ISBN: 0 7922 7319 2
Condition: Extremely Good, marks and minor scratches on dustcover
BD