Themes from the Times for Astronomy
- ISBN-10
- 0805390286
- ISBN-13
- 9780805390285
- Category
- Astronomy
- Pages
- 100
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-07-20
- Publisher
- Addison-Wesley
- Authors
- Jeffrey O. Bennett, Megan Donahue, Mark Voit
Description
50 seminal astronomy articles from The New York Times, each with an introduction giving a context for that discovery and associated exercises and problems for each week of your course.
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