Astronomy, space and time

An expert in planetary sciences offers an accessible synopsis of scientific knowledge about the celestial bodies with which we are most familiar-Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.

While astronomy is a burgeoning science, with tremendous increases in knowledge every year, it also has a tremendous past, one that has altered humanity's understanding of our place in the universe.

Teach the basics of astronomical and space science using lively retellings of traditional folktales and quality children's literature.

In 1961, President John F.

In the first book which deals entirely with the subject of time in Africa and the Black Diaspora, Adjaye presents ten critical case studies of selected communities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the American South.

Though the concept of "e;the universe"e; suggests the containment of everything, the latest ideas in cosmology hint that our universe may be just one of a multitude of others-a single slice of an infinity of parallel realities.

"e;At NASA, our eyes are not just focused on the stars but also fixated on the sky.

This book presents previously unexamined connections between teaching practices and specific philosophical ideas, locating the prior beliefs and practical knowledge of early childhood practitioners in urban India within the broader social and historical religio-philosophical context.

While Islam has become a controversial topic in the West, a growing number of Westerners find powerful meaning in Islam.

This collection introduces readers to the history and practice of the Vodou religion, and corrects many misconceptions.

There is deep mystery and profound satisfaction in finding your position on earth by reference to the sun, moon, and stars--not to mention profound relief when the GPS receiver stops working in mid-passage.

When Sultan bin Salman left Earth on the shuttle Discovery in 1985, he became the first Arab, first Muslim and first member of a royal family in space.

When Sultan bin Salman left Earth on the shuttle Discovery in 1985, he became the first Arab, first Muslim and first member of a royal family in space.

The Moon is not just a static piece of cosmic matter in our night sky, but a dynamic living being.

In chapter 1 of On the Heavens Aristotle defines body, and then notoriously ruptures dynamics by introducing a fifth element, beyond Plato's four, to explain the rotation of the heavens, which, like nearly all Greeks, Aristotle took to be real, not apparent.

Explores how the Universe, our planet, ourselves, and everything in existence has inherent meaning and evolutionary purpose*; 2023 Nautilus Gold Award*; Examines our emergence as self-aware members of a Universe that is itself a unified and innately sentient entity that exists TO evolve*; Shares leading-edge scientific breakthroughs and shows how they support traditional visions of Earth as a living being--Gaia*; Rewrites evolution as not driven by random occurrences and mutations but by intelligently informed and meaningful information flows and processesExploring our emergence as self-aware members of a planetary home and entire Universe that is a unified and innately sentient entity, Jude Currivan, Ph.

*; Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of detailed diagrams and technical illustrations exploring the evolution and importance of the starcut diagram *; Shows how the starcut diagram underlies the shaman's dance in China, the Vedic Fire Altar in India, Raphael frescoes, labyrinth designs, the Great Pyramid in Egypt, and the building of ancient cities *; Explains how the starcut diagram was used in building and design, how it relates to Pythagoras's Tetrakys, and how it contains knowledge of the Tree of Life As Malcolm Stewart reveals in this lavishly illustrated study, the simplesquare figure of the Starcut diagram, created only with circles, has extraordinary geometric properties.

Examines how the similarities of symbols and wisdom across many cultures point to an ancient civilizing plan and system of ancient instruction *; Reveals the shared cosmological knowledge of Dogon and Maori cultures, ancient Egypt, Gobekli Tepe, Vedic India, the pre-Indian Sakti civilization, Buddhism, the Tibetan Bon religion, and the kabbalistic tradition of the Hebrews *; Explores symbols and techniques used to frame and preserve instructed knowledge as it was transmitted orally from generation to generation *; Explains how this shared ancient knowledge relates to the precessional year and the cycles of time known as the yugas Exploring the mystery of why so many ancient cultures, separated by time and distance, share remarkably similar cosmological philosophies and religious symbolism, Laird Scranton reveals how this shared creation tradition upholds the idea that ancient instruction gave birth to the great civilizations, each of which preserves fragments of the original knowledge.

From the cutting edge of science and living spirituality: a guide to understanding our identity and purpose in the world *; Outlines the new understanding of matter and mind coming to light at the cutting edge of physics and consciousness research *; Explains how we can evolve consciously, become connected with each other, and flourish on this planet *; Includes contributions from Maria Sagi, Kingsley L.

How holographic patterns of information underlie our physical reality*; 2017 Nautilus Silver Award*; Includes myriad evidence from a wide range of cutting-edge scientific discoveries showing our Universe is an interconnected hologram of information*; Explains how consciousness is a major component of the cosmic hologram of information, making us both manifestations and co-creators of our reality*; Reconciles Quantum Mechanics and Einstein's Theory of Relativity by showing that energy-matter and space-time are complementary expressions of informationOur understanding of the Universe is about to transform at all levels, from the tiniest Planck scale to the vast reaches of space.

A profound exploration of the simple numerical ratios that underlie our solar system, its musical harmony, and our earliest religious beliefs *; Reveals how the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus relate to the Moon and the inner planets as an octave with musical scales *; Explores how this harmonic planetary knowledge was encoded within ancient monuments and temples then spread within oral traditions *; Explains how the solar system functions as a musical instrument and how this led to the rise of intelligent life, civilization, and culture on our planet As modern humans first walked the Earth roughly 70,000 years ago, the Moon's orbit came into harmonic resonance with the outer planets of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.

An exploration of the current revolution in scientific thought and the newest scientific findings in support of the Akashic field *; Explains how the new Akasha paradigm recognizes the interconnection of all things in space and time through the quantum resonance of the Akashic field *; Reveals the cosmos to be a self-actualizing, self-organizing whole, bringing forth life and consciousness in countless universes *; Explores the latest discoveries in the sciences of life, mind, and cosmos Science evolves through alternating phases of ';normal science' and radical shifts that create scientific revolutions.

An original investigation into the social and technological history of solar powerFrom the days of Archimedes and Leonardo, the earliest efforts to harness the power of the sun have become the stuff of legend.

THE FAST AND PAINLESS WAY TO GRASP THE FUNDAMENTALS OF BASIC ASTRONOMY .

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Dogon cosmology provides a new Rosetta stone for reinterpreting Egyptian hieroglyphs *; Provides a new understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs as scientific symbols based on Dogon cosmological drawings *; Use parallels between Dogon and Egyptian word meanings to identify relationships between Dogon myths and modern science In The Science of the Dogon, Laird Scranton demonstrated that the cosmological structure described in the myths and drawings of the Dogon runs parallel to modern science--atomic theory, quantum theory, and string theory--their drawings often taking the same form as accurate scientific diagrams that relate to the formation of matter.

The profound influence of ancient cosmologies on our ideas about the human spirit *; Shows how ancient myths contain a sophisticated understanding of our relationship to the cosmos, derived from thousands of years of observation of the night sky *; Explains how ideas of the mind and spirit are still entwined with these ancient cosmologies despite the disruptive effects of modern astronomy *; Reveals how ancient ideas and contemporary cosmology might be combined into a new model for spiritual meaning Thousands of years before the first written records, humans were turning to the night sky as a source of meaning for existence and their place within it.

Reconstructs a theoretic parent cosmology that underlies ancient religion *; Shows how this parent cosmology provided the conceptual origins of written language *; Uses techniques of comparative cosmology to synchronize the creation traditions of the Dogon, ancient Egyptians, and ancient Buddhists *; Applies the signature elements of this parent cosmology to explore and interpret the creation tradition of a present-day Tibetan/Chinese tribe called the Na-Khi--the keepers of the world's last surviving hieroglyphic language Great thinkers and researchers such as Carl Jung have acknowledged the many broad similarities that exist between the myths and symbols of ancient cultures.

El código maya constituye una profunda exploración de la manera en que, a medida que nos aproximamos al final del calendario maya, el tiempo y la conciencia se aceleran y nos proporcionan una nueva comprensión del universo.

Reveals the ancient mathematical principles refuting the notion of the solar system as an accidental creation*; Reveals how ancient civilizations encoded their secret knowledge of the sky in mythology, music, and sacred measures*; Shows how modern culture can benefit from the ancient astronomical and astrological worldview based on number*; Shows the role of ratio and harmonic proportions in the creation of the material worldHumanity's understanding of number was deeper and richer when the concept of creation was rooted in direct experience.

Using the power of the sun, moon, stars, and planets, this unique, illustrated guide is filled with engaging exercises that deepen your knowledge of the solar system, help you take necessary pauses every day, and foster a renewed sense of presence in the universe.

Provides compelling evidence that creation myths from the dawn of civilization correspond to cutting edge astronomical discoveries *; Exposes the contradictions in current cosmological theory and offers a scientific basis for the ancient myths and esoteric lore that encode a theory of continuous creation*; By the scientist who was the first to disprove the Big Bang theory on the basis of observational dataRecent developments in theoretical physics, including systems theory and chaos theory, are challenging long-held mechanistic views of the universe.

A groundbreaking study that distinguishes the natural time of the cosmos from artificial mechanistic time.

A guide to the science of prophecy, why so many predictions never come to pass, and the Golden Age ahead *; Presents a mathematical means of divining the future, revealed in the Oahspe Bible, using the Egyptian Tables of Destiny, a 12,000-year-old system so exact it can foretell every day of the year *; Reveals that we are not headed for Rapture and the Apocalypse but for ';the Quickening,' the embryonic stage of a Utopian Age *; Examines the cycles of history and explains why many prophecies have not come true Reviewing the cycles of history from biblical times to the present and prophecies of the future from Nostradamus to Edgar Cayce and Jeane Dixon, Susan B.

Identifying the Mayan World Tree with the central axis of the cosmos, the author shows how evolution is not random *; Shows how the evolution of the universe emanates from the cosmic Tree of Life *; Explains the origin and evolution of biological life and consciousness and how this is directed Using recent findings within cosmology, coupled with his broad understanding of the Mayan Calendar, biologist Carl Johan Calleman offers a revolutionary and fully developed alternative to Darwin's theory of biological evolution--and the theory of randomness that holds sway over modern science.

Bestselling author Barbara Hand Clow shows how the Mayan Calendar is a bridge to galactic wisdom that fosters personal growth and human evolution *; Unearths the meaning behind the calendar, its message for modern civilization, and what will happen after the calendar ends *; Reveals how time acceleration is a manifestation of the acceleration of consciousness *; By the author of The Pleiadian Agenda The Mayan Code is a deep exploration of how, with the end of the Mayan Calendar, time and consciousness have been accelerating, giving us a new understanding of the universe.

Reveals the Mayan calendar to be a spiritual device that describes the evolution of human consciousness from ancient times into the future*; Shows the connection between cosmic evolution and actual human history*; Provides a new science of time that explains why time not only seems to be speeding up in the modern world but is actually getting faster*; Explains how the end of the Mayan calendar is not the end of the world, but a path toward enlightenmentThe prophetic Mayan calendar is not keyed to the movement of planetary bodies.

An astrophysicist chronicles his quest to photograph a black hole and reflects on its spiritual ramifications in this international-bestselling memoir.

Knowledge Discovery in Big Data from Astronomy and Earth Observation: Astrogeoinformatics bridges the gap between astronomy and geoscience in the context of applications, techniques and key principles of big data.

'If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe' - Carl SaganInspired by Sagan's famous line, How To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch sets out on a journey to unearth everything we know about our universe: how it started, how we found out, and what we still have left to discover .

Soar to the stars with Dr.

This expert guide to plant formation and the origins of life "e;makes the solar system an even weirder and more wonderful place than it seemed before"e; (Wall Street Journal).

"e;Exceptionally absorbing and thrilling.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton Observatory have been the pioneering satellites for studying the Universe with X-rays and the cornerstone of X-ray spectroscopy since their launches more than 20 years ago.

An ';intriguing and accessible' (Publishers Weekly) interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history's greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers.

Einstein's Shadow follows a team of elite scientists on their historic mission to take the first picture of a black hole, putting Einstein's theory of relativity to its ultimate test and helping to answer our deepest questions about space, time, the origins of the universe, and the nature of realityPhotographing a black hole sounds impossible, a contradiction in terms.

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John Brockman brings together the worlds best-known physicists and science writersincluding Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Nobel Prize-winner Frank Wilczek, Benoit Mandelbrot, and Martin Reesto explain the universe in all wondrous splendor.