Eclipse: The Celestial Phenomenon that Changed the Course of History
Year: 2001 Language: english Author: Duncan Steel Genre: Handbook Publisher: The Joseph Henry Press ISBN: 030907438X Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 493 Description: Whether interpreted as an auspicious omen or a sentinel of doom, eclipses have had a profound effect upon our cultural development. The pattern that eclipses follow - a cycle, called the Saros - was actually calculated thousands of years ago. However, it is only with the help of modern computers that we have been able to analyse and appreciate the data. Eclipses provide unique opportunities for today's scientists to study such contrasting phenomena as the upper layers of the sun, the slowdown of our planet's spin rate, and the effects of celestial events on human psychology. In Eclipse, Duncan Steel expertly captures our continuing fascination with all manner of eclipses - including the familiar solar and lunar varieties and other kinds involving stars, planets, asteroids, and comets as well as distant galaxies and quasars. Steel helps us see that, in astronomical terms, eclipses are really rather straightforward affairs. Moving beyond the mysticism and the magic, the science of eclipses is revealed.
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Eclipse: The Celestial Phenomenon that Changed the Course of History
Language: english
Author: Duncan Steel
Genre: Handbook
Publisher: The Joseph Henry Press
ISBN: 030907438X
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 493
Description: Whether interpreted as an auspicious omen or a sentinel of doom, eclipses have had a profound effect upon our cultural development. The pattern that eclipses follow - a cycle, called the Saros - was actually calculated thousands of years ago. However, it is only with the help of modern computers that we have been able to analyse and appreciate the data. Eclipses provide unique opportunities for today's scientists to study such contrasting phenomena as the upper layers of the sun, the slowdown of our planet's spin rate, and the effects of celestial events on human psychology. In Eclipse, Duncan Steel expertly captures our continuing fascination with all manner of eclipses - including the familiar solar and lunar varieties and other kinds involving stars, planets, asteroids, and comets as well as distant galaxies and quasars. Steel helps us see that, in astronomical terms, eclipses are really rather straightforward affairs. Moving beyond the mysticism and the magic, the science of eclipses is revealed.
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