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Beautifully illustrated with over 140 full colour images, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites provides a thorough guide to these fascinating extraterrestrial rocks. Meteorites are our only contact with materials from beyond the Earth-Moon system. Using well known petrologic techniques, this book reveals in vivid colour their extraordinary external and internal structures. Looking deeper still, right to the atomic level, they begin to tell us of the environment within the solar nebula that existed before the planets accreted. In recent years, meteorites have caught the imagination of scientist and collector alike. An army of people are now actively searching for them in the hot and cold deserts of Earth. This book is a valuable guide to assist the searchers in the field to recognize the many classes of meteorites. It is further a reference source for students, teachers and scientists who wish to probe deeper these amazing rocks from space.

The Road to Reality is the most important and ambitious work of science for a generation. It provides nothing less than a comprehensive account of the physical universe and the essentials of its underlying mathematical theory. It assumes no particular specialist knowledge on the part of the reader, so that, for example, the early chapters give us the vital mathematical background to the physical theories explored later in the book. Roger Penrose''s purpose is to describe as clearly as possible our present understanding of the universe and to convey a feeling for its deep beauty and philosophical implications, as well as its intricate logical interconnections. The Road to Reality is rarely less than challenging, but the book is leavened by vivid descriptive passages, as well as hundreds of hand-drawn diagrams. In a single work of colossal scope one of the world''s greatest scientists has given us a complete and unrivalled guide to the glories of the universe that we all inhabit.

"It is particularly remarkable that a single physicist--Albert Einstein--has such extraordinarily deep perceptions of the workings of Nature that he laid foundation stones of . . .[the] twentieth-century revolutions [in physics] in the single year of 1905."--From the foreword by Roger Penrose, Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford After 1905, Einstein''s miraculous year, physics would never be the same again. In those twelve months, Einstein shattered many cherished scientific beliefs with five extraordinary papers that would establish him as the world''s leading physicist. This book brings those papers together in an accessible format. The best-known papers are the two that founded special relativity: "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" and "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on Its Energy Content?" In the former, Einstein showed that absolute time had to be replaced by a new absolute: the speed of light. In the second, he asserted the equivalence of mass and energy, which would lead to the famous formula "E = mc2," The book also includes "On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light," in which Einstein challenged the wave theory of light, suggesting that light could also be regarded as a collection of particles. This helped to open the door to a whole new world--that of quantum physics. For ideas in this paper, he won the Nobel Prize in 1921.

Mirar al cielo suele parecernos un suceso similar al de asomarse a un abismo. El cosmos es para nosotros el reino de lo lejano, el espacio donde yace todo aquello que nunca podremos tocar. Lo que ocurre, sin embargo, es todo lo contrario. No hay nada mas cercano que el cielo, nada mas propio de nuestra condicion que dejarse asombrar por el brillo de un planeta. Todo lo que nos ha ocurrido como especie, todo lo que les ocurrio a las especies que nos precedieron y habra de ocurrirles a las que nos sigan esta intimamente unido al devenir de los astros. Esto lo sabe muy bien Rafael Bachiller, uno de los pocos cientificos profesionales que se esfuerzan por comunicar la ciencia al gran publico.

Experience all 135 NASA space shuttle missions ever flown through the words of the astronauts themselves in this spectacularly illustrated volume With more than 600 photos from the NASA archives, thi

Tractat d’Aristòtil sobre la formació i naturalesa de l’univers. Una obra clau de la filosofia antiga que reflexiona sobre el moviment dels astres.

¿Busca una explicación sobre la naturaleza del universo apta para todos los públicos? Los libros de divulgación científica pretenden acercarse al gran público y, por eso, deberían utilizar un lenguaje asequible y directo. Sin embargo, ¿esta cansado de tener que abandonar la lectura de un libro de divulgacion porque sus explicaciones son demasiado confusas o tecnicas? Si es curioso, pero no experto; si le gustaria aprender mas sobre el atomo, las galaxias, el tiempo o la teoria de la relatividad, pero no encuentra un libro asequible, 225 preguntas es el libro que estaba buscando. Una obra amena con la que: Entendera las noticias mas actuales sobre las ondas gravitacionales o la particula de Dios. Sondeara las entrañas del atomo y viajara hasta los cumulos de las galaxias. Comprendera los ultimos avances cientificos en cosmologia o fisica cuantica. Obtendra respuestas claras a las preguntas concretas que siempre quiso saber, pero nunca se atrevio a plantear. Podra afrontar cualquier otro libro de divulgacion cientifica. Ademas, los entusiastas de las formulas matematicas que quieran profundizar en el tema disfrutaran de las paginas con desarrollo matematico que se presentan a lo largo del libro. El autor de 225 preguntas, Mariano Abril, es lector habitual de libros de divulgacion, geodesta militar, ingeniero de caminos y doctor en construccion. Se ha enfrentado en muchas ocasiones a best sellers de cientificos famosos y se ha sentido defraudado no pocas veces. No obstante, no ha desistido en su empeño y, ahora, pone a su disposicion este libro de divulgacion cientifica para el gran publico. ¡No valen las excusas! Tiene en sus manos la explicacion a 225 cuestiones que le permitiran escrutar las entrañas de la materia viajar hasta los confines del universo y obtener una respuesta clara, rigurosa y visual a las preguntas concretas que siempre quiso saber. ¿A que espera para conseguir la guia definitiva que saciara su curiosidad?