Universe from Flat Earth to Quasar

By Isaac Asimov

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038001596X
• ISBN13: 9780380015962
• Release Date: August 1977
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Introduccion detallada a los objetos del universo

El libro fue uno de los primeros que lei siendo un niño, y desde entonces me gusta la astronomia y astrofisica. Describe todos los objetos celestes observables, introduce los diferentes metodos y tecnicas de observacion (aunque el libro esta claramente anticuado en este aspecto...es muy anterior al Hubble, por ejemplo) y describe desde las estrellas y su ciclo vital en funcion de la masa, las galaxias, pulsares, quasares... No le doy la quinta estrella porque esta anticuado...

Excellent piece of non-fiction!

For anyone at all interested in astronomy, this book is a must-read. Asimov outlines the process by which man built up his astronomy starting in ancient times and moving right up through the present (when this book was published - the late 60s, I believe). It describes all the observations and measurments make to figure out everything from the size of the earth to the size of the galaxy, to the number of stars in the galaxy, to the distance of far-away galaxies. He writes it in such a way that anyone, regardless of your level of math, could say, "Wow! If I only had the data, I could figure that out!" Unfortunately, this book stops in the 60s, so, towards the end, I knew more about some things than he did. However, up until then, this is truly a fascinating read.