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Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
110 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles a Vassar professor who was one of the most famous astronomers in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century and whose central message to her students was "never cease to wonder."
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 90 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Using her deep knowledge, her skills as a storyteller, and her imagination, Dava Sobel illuminates one of history's most significant and far-reaching meetings. In the spring of 1539, a young German mathematician--Georg Joachim Rheticus--journeyed hundreds of miles to northern Poland to meet the legendary, elderly cleric and reluctant astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. Some two decades earlier, Copernicus had floated the mind-boggling theory that the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
xxxix, 295 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St Cleeve, her social inferior and ten years her junior. The tower in question is a monument converted into an astronomical observatory where together the lovers 'sweep the heavens'." "Science and romance are destined to collide, however, as work, ambition and the pressures of the outside world intrude upon the pair. In what Sally Shuttleworth...
68) Honey girl
Author
Language
English
Description
"With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, 28-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls' trip to Vegas to celebrate. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn't know, until she does exactly that. This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father's plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesn't feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 273 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists who influence our every day, Rachel Swaby's ... profiles span centuries of courageous thinkers and illustrate how each one's ideas developed, from their first moment of scientific engagement through the research and discovery for which they're best known"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Buzz Aldrin, part of the first moon landing! Follow Aldrin's story as he graduates from West Point, served in the United States Air Force during the Korean War, develops a rendezvous program for the Gemini and Apollo missions, and flies to the moon on the Apollo 11 mission. Infographics, historic photos, and a glossary enhance readers' understanding of this topic. Additional features include a table of contents, an index, a timeline and fun...
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
©1989
Physical Desc
109 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the eighteenth-century black tobacco farmer who taught himself mathematics, astronomy, and clockmaking; became famous for his almanacs; and assisted in the original survey of Washington, D.C.
Author
Publisher
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
Pub. Date
c1979
Physical Desc
63 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the 16th-century Italian mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who questioned the accepted scientific theories of his time and was tried by the Inquisition for his ideas.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of Galileo Galilei's life, including his scientific achievements and his defense of his controversial theory that the earth revolves around the sun. Also includes how letters from his illegitimate daughter, Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, have shed new light on Galileo's discoveries and his trial for heresy.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
414 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by the true story of Pluto's discoverer follows the interlinked stories of a wealthy heir seeking dinosaurs in the 1920s West, a beautiful girl gradually succumbing to mental illness, and Kansas farm boy Clyde Tombaugh.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) ; color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography of Nancy Grace Roman, the astronomer who overcame obstacles such as weakening eyesight and teachers who did not believe astronomy was an appropriate career for a woman to lead the NASA team to build the Hubble Space Telescope. This is the empowering story of a female scientist's triumphs at a time when society discouraged women from pursuing scientific careers. It is also the story of an important milestone in the field of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Carl Sagan, known for his research on extraterrestrial life! Follow Sagan's story as he theorizes on the temperature of Venus's surface, works with NASA to build the Mariner 2, Viking I, and Viking II probes, and creates the popular PBS program Cosmos. Infographics, historic photos, and a glossary enhance readers' understanding of this topic. Additional features include a table of contents, an index, a timeline and fun facts. Aligned to Common...
80) The planet hunter: how astronomer Mike Brown's search for the 10th planet shook up the solar system
Author
Publisher
Rising Moon
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
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