Unlocking the Moon's Secrets
From Galileo to Giant Impact
$89.55
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
22 October 2023
Summary
The Moon is the most viewed object in the sky, the Sun being too bright to look at directly and the planets too far away. The Greeks deduced everything that could be learned about the Moon using only the naked eye, including that it has no light of its own but reflects that of the Sun. They understood the cause of eclipses and used the Earth’s shadow on the Moon to conclude that our planet is a sphere and to calculate the size of both the Moon and the Earth.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780197694862 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0197694861 |
| Author: | James Lawrence Powell |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 22 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 381g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 243mm x 17mm |
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About The Author
James Lawrence Powell
James Lawrence Powell, Retired, formerly Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, served as Acting President of Oberlin, President of Franklin and Marshall College, President of Reed College, and President of the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia. He has written a number of books, the most recent of which is The 2084 Report: An Oral History of the Great Warming (2020). It followed Deadly Voyager: The Ancient Comet Strike That Changed Earth and Human History (2020). He also recently contributed to The Universe As It Really Is (2018).
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