Astronomy: The Cosmic Perspective

by Michael Zeilik and John Gaustad

Book Overview

This introductory astronomy text has become a new standard for full-year courses. The unifying theme is evolution--of astronomical bodies and of the universe as a whole. The opening chapters survey cosmologies from ancient times forward. Succeeding chapters in the Second Edition have been rearranged to follow the popular order of topics covering, respectively, the nature and evolution of the planets, the stars, galaxies and the universe. There is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047150016X
• ISBN13: 9780471500162
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 864 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.