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Book 81 - Neil deGrasse Tyson "Welcome To The Universe"
Neil deGrasse Tyson "Welcome To The Universe" (Princetown University Press)
Sort of an informal version of a comprehensive textbook for an introductory astronomy course, with Tyson (helped by Strauss) covering stars and planets, Strauss covering galaxies, and Gott covering relativity and cosmology. Handsomely produced, colourfully illustrated, written with verve, *and* quite meaty. Mathematics is present, but it is high-school level and does not dominate. There's no evidence that Gott or the other authors have any sympathy with those who nowadays question inflation or other aspects of the concordance model of cosmology.
I suppose i could read textbooks rather than pop-science books which this book generally comes under(albeit much more slowly, and with a pad and pencil in hand for figuring things out), but I don't want to read a physics textbook, well not since i studied it as an Open University course way back in the late seventies. AS such, this is still a very comprehensive overview , and if you want to dig deeper,and have a very good handle on the mathematics,then go for a textbook on the subject. Meanwhile, this will suffice.
Sort of an informal version of a comprehensive textbook for an introductory astronomy course, with Tyson (helped by Strauss) covering stars and planets, Strauss covering galaxies, and Gott covering relativity and cosmology. Handsomely produced, colourfully illustrated, written with verve, *and* quite meaty. Mathematics is present, but it is high-school level and does not dominate. There's no evidence that Gott or the other authors have any sympathy with those who nowadays question inflation or other aspects of the concordance model of cosmology.
I suppose i could read textbooks rather than pop-science books which this book generally comes under(albeit much more slowly, and with a pad and pencil in hand for figuring things out), but I don't want to read a physics textbook, well not since i studied it as an Open University course way back in the late seventies. AS such, this is still a very comprehensive overview , and if you want to dig deeper,and have a very good handle on the mathematics,then go for a textbook on the subject. Meanwhile, this will suffice.