Solar System (with InfoTrac and The Sky CD-ROM) - Softcover

Seeds, Michael A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534375820 ISBN 13: 9780534375829

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 1999

Synopsis

This text is one of two splits from Seeds's FOUNDATIONS OF ASTRONOMY. It contains the introductory and historical chapters from FOUNDATIONS, as well as all the planets chapters and the chapter on extraterrestrial life. This book teaches planetary astronomy not just by presenting facts, but by building a conceptual framework and then letting the facts fit into that framework. It uses astronomy to show how science works and how physical laws prescribe the solar system and the universe.

About this title

About the Author

Michael A. Seeds has been Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, since 1970. In 1989, he received F&M College's Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. Seeds' love for the history of astronomy led him to create upper-level courses on Archaeoastronomy and Changing Concepts of the Universe. His research interests focus on variable stars and the automation of astronomical telescopes. Mike is coauthor with Dana Backman and Michele Montgomery of HORIZONS HYBRID: EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE, Thirteenth Edition, and UNIVERSE HYBRID: SOLAR SYSTEM, STARS AND GALAXIES, Eighth Edition, both published by Cengage. He was Senior Consultant in the creation of the twenty-six-episode telecourse accompanying the book HORIZONS: EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE, Twelfth Edition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0534375820
• ISBN 13: 9780534375829
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1