Astronomy: The Heavenly Challenge
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Rating | : | 4.35 (869 Votes) |
Asin | : | B000H5TU1S |
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Number of Pages | : | 545 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2014-01-17 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Newman tells the story of science and discovery in his distinctively clear and direct style.. About the AuthorEdwin Newman, narrator of the Science and Discovery series, is a celebrated journalist, author, and lecturer. Mr. He was for thirty-five years a television journalist for NBC News, and he's familiar to millions as a moderator of presidential debates
He was for thirty-five years a television journalist for NBC News, and he's familiar to millions as a moderator of presidential debates. Mr. Edwin Newman, narrator of the Science and Discovery series, is a celebrated journalist, author, and lecturer. Newman tells the story of science and disc
Their questions, and their non-religious answers, toppled the idea that man--and the Church--are at the center of the universe. This is a story of vested interests and independent thinkers, experiments and theories, change and progress. Tycho Brahe in Denmark, Nicolaus Copernicus of Poland, Johannes Kepler of Germany, and Italy's Galileo Galilei all began to see a new relationship between the world and the stars. Aristotle, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, and Einstein all make appearances.. The Science and Discovery Series recreates history's four-thousand-year journey of scientific progress. Science has often challenged and upset conventional wisd