Stamping Through Astronomy

• Main Author: Dicati, Renato. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2829-6

Stamps and other postal documents are an attractive vehicle for presenting astronomy and its development. Written with expertise and great enthusiasm, this unique book offers a historical and philatelic survey of astronomy and some related topics on space exploration. It contains more than 1300 colo...

Table of Contents:

• 1 The origins of Astronomy
• 2�The ancients Astronomy
• 3�Medieval Astronomy
• 4�The revival of Astronomy and the Copernican revolution
• 5 Galileo and the� new views of the sky
• 6�The Mechanical Universe
• 7�The development of instrumentation
• 8�Observations and discoveries in the Solar System
• 9�The advent of Astrophysics
• 10 The discovery of the Universe
• 11�The new astronomies.���.