Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos by Natarajan, Priyamvada

Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos

A noted astrophysicist presents a lively and accessible introduction to radical ideas and discoveries that are transforming...
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Author: Priyamvada Natarajan
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Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos by Natarajan, Priyamvada

Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos

€28,24

Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos

€28,24
Author: Priyamvada Natarajan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A noted astrophysicist presents a lively and accessible introduction to radical ideas and discoveries that are transforming our knowledge of the universe

"A strikingly lucid account of the expansion, not just of the universe, but of the way we have tried to understand it, from the Babylonians to black holes and dark matter."--Richard Holmes, "By the Book,"New York Times Book Review

"Part history, part science, all illuminating. If you want to understand the greatest ideas that shaped our current cosmic cartography, read this book."--Adam G. Riess, Nobel Laureate in Physics, 2011

This book provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries--the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter. Priyamvada Natarajan, our guide to these ideas, is someone at the forefront of the research--an astrophysicist who literally creates maps of invisible matter in the universe. She not only explains for a wide audience the science behind these essential ideas but also provides an understanding of how radical scientific theories gain acceptance.

The formation and growth of black holes, dark matter halos, the accelerating expansion of the universe, the echo of the big bang, the discovery of exoplanets, and the possibility of other universes--these are some of the puzzling cosmological topics of the early twenty-first century. Natarajan discusses why the acceptance of new ideas about the universe and our place in it has never been linear and always contested even within the scientific community. And she affirms that, shifting and incomplete as science always must be, it offers the best path we have toward making sense of our wondrous, mysterious universe.

Author: Priyamvada Natarajan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 05/23/2017
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780300227031

About the Author
Priyamvada Natarajan is professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University and holds the Sophie and Tycho Brahe Professorship at the Dark Center, Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and an honorary professorship at the University of Delhi, India.

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