This book is, in a sense, a sequel to David Seargent's first Springer book Weird Astronomy (2010).
Enter David Seargent. Continuing the author's series of books popularizing strange astronomy facts and knowledge, Weird Universe explains the bizarre, complicated terrain of modern cosmology for lay readers.
This book concentrates on some of the odd aspects of comets and asteroids.
This book assumes a basic level of astronomical understanding and concentrates on the “odd and interesting” aspects of planetary bodies, including asteroids and moons.
After presenting a brief overview of the nature of comets and how we came to the modern understanding of comets, this book details the various types of observations that can usefully be carried out at the eyepiece of a telescope.
Volume 6, the final volume in the catalog, covers the observations and pertinent calculations for every comet seen between 1983 and 1993.
In this book, author David Seargent takes issue with the assumption, long held in Western thought, that mankind and the planet we inhabit, has no special or privileged features; that our being here is purely a matter of chance.
In this book, prophecies from both Old and New Testaments are examined in an attempt to ascertain how they are to be understood, both from the point of view of those who first received them, and from the viewpoint of present-day readers.It ...
Volume 6, the final volume in the catalog, covers the observations and pertinent calculations for every comet seen between 1983 and 1993.
This book presents evidence for the existence of another sense through which spiritual reality may be perceived. Evidence is taken from near-death and mystical experiences, prophecy, answered prayers etc.
Brocken Specter, 284, 285 Brownlee, D., 9 Bryan, H., 263 Buoyancy waves. ... 35-36 Cascade, 221, 228, 229, 235, 246 Cassini (spacecraft), 124, 208-211, 255 Castell-Evans, 1., 337 Cernan, G., 288 Chalker, B., 335-33 7, 342,344 Chandler, ...
Enter David Seargent. Continuing the author's series of books popularizing strange astronomy facts and knowledge, Weird Universe explains the bizarre, complicated terrain of modern cosmology for lay readers.
Enter David Seargent. Continuing the author's series of books popularizing strange astronomy facts and knowledge, Weird Universe explains the bizarre, complicated terrain of modern cosmology for lay readers.
After presenting a brief overview of the nature of comets and how we came to the modern understanding of comets, this book details the various types of observations that can usefully be carried out at the eyepiece of a telescope.