Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Almost everything we know about the Universe has come from studying the messages carried by light from outer space.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Almost everything we know about the Universe has come from studying the messages carried by light from outer space.
Galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe: standing like islands in space, each is made up of many hundreds of millions of stars in which the chemical elements are made, around which planets form, and where on at least one of those planets intelligent life has emerged.
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.
In einer Welt, die von unzähligen Berichten über UFO-Sichtungen und mysteriöse Himmelsphänomene fasziniert ist, stellt sich eine brennende Frage: Könnten diese unbekannten Flugobjekte tatsächlich auf fortschrittlichen Technologien basieren, die weit über unser derzeitiges Verständnis hinausgehen?
In A Brief History of Black Holes, award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics.
An exploration of space and time and a journey of discovery, through thirteen of the most fascinating Christmas Lectures given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain over the last 200 years.
From the world-renowned physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos, a captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purposeIn both time and space, the cosmos is astoundingly vast, and yet is governed by simple, elegant, universal mathematical laws.
Physicist Frank Close takes the reader to the frontiers of science in a vividly told investigation of revolutionary science and enterprise from the seventeenth century to the present.
If you want to remember why you once fell in love with the idea of the cosmos, or want to fall in love with it for the first time, then this book is for you ObserverFrom Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, this is a story of wonder, new worlds and why the end is just the beginningLet us journey into the heart of a black hole.
'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 .
The Book of Ceremonial Magic - Arthur Edward Waite - The Book of Ceremonial Magic by Arthur Edward Waite was originally called The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts.
