Astronomy: The Human Quest for Understanding
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 August 2022
- ISBN 9780198825838
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages912 pages
- Size 246x190x42 mm
- Weight 1868 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 733 line drawings and colour halftones 286
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Short description:
This introductory astronomy textbook is aimed at undergraduates across a range of disciplines. It encourages the development of vital science-based critical-thinking skills, and outlines our present-day understanding of our universe and the profound questions still to be answered in this ancient, yet rapidly changing field.
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Since humans first looked up at the stars, astronomy has had a particular ability to stir the imagination and challenge the thinking of scientists and non-scientists alike. Astronomy: The Human Quest for Understanding is an introductory astronomy textbook specifically designed to relate to non-science majors across a wide variety of disciplines, nurture their curiosity, and develop vital science-based critical-thinking skills.
This textbook provides an introduction to how science operates in practice and what makes it so successful in uncovering nature's secrets. Given that the study of astronomy dates back thousands of years, it is the ideal subject for tracing the development of the physical sciences and how our evolving understanding of nature has influenced, and been influenced by, mathematics, philosophy, religion, geography, politics, and more. This historical approach also illustrates how wrong turns have been taken, and how the inherent self-correcting nature of science through constant verification and the falsifiability of truly scientific theories ultimately leads us back to a more productive path in our quest for understanding. This approach also points out why, as a broadly educated citizenry, students of all disciplines must understand how scientists arrive at conclusions, and how science and technology have become central features of modern society.
In discussing this fascinating and beautiful universe of which we are a part, it is necessary to illustrate the fundamental role that mathematics plays in decoding nature's mysteries. Unlike other similar textbooks, some basic mathematics is integrated naturally into the text, together with interpretive language, and supplemented with numerous examples; additional tutorials are provided on the book's companion website.
Astronomy: The Human Quest for Understanding leads the reader down the path to our present-day understanding of our Solar System, stars, galaxies, and the beginning and evolution of our universe, along with profound questions still to be answered in this ancient, yet rapidly changing field.
This hefty volume includes standard textbook-type supplements-such as problem sets with some of the answers provided in an appendix but could also serve as a mini-reference book or self-study guide for a wide range of astronomical topics...The writing style is fresh and approachable, encouraging an understanding of the nature of science as something that people do when curious about how nature works.
Table of Contents:
I The Process of Science Through the Lens of Astronomy
The Nature of Science
The Heavens: A Realm of Mystery
On the Path Toward Modern Science
The Copernican Revolution
Sir Isaac Newton's Universe
The Universality of Physical Law
Revealing Secrets Hidden in Light and Matter
Modern Physics: New Science to Study the Universe
II The Sun, Our Solar System, and Exoplanets
The Sun, Our Parent Star
An Overview of the Solar System
The Rocky Planets and Our Moon
The Giant Planet Systems
Dwarf Planets and Small Bodies
Planets Everywhere and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
III Stars and the Universe Beyond
Measuring the Stars
The Lives of Stars
The End of a Stellar Life
Galaxies Galore
The Once and Future Universe
Appendices
