Jean-Claude Pecker - Böcker

What are the current ideas describing the large-scale structure of the Universe? How do they relate to the observed facts? This book looks at both the strengths and weaknesses of the current big-bang model in explaining certain puzzling data. It a...

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What are the current ideas describing the large-scale structure of the Universe? How do they relate to the observed facts? This book looks at both the strengths and weaknesses of the current big-bang model in explaining certain puzzling data. It a...

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Edith Alicia Mller (1918-1995) was the IAU General Secretary from 1976 to 1979, the first woman to have this responsibility. Many friends, students and colleagues, and others who have met Edith at different occasions, give in this book their memor...

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What are the current ideas describing the large-scale structure of the Universe? How do they relate to the observed facts? This book looks at both the strengths and weaknesses of the current big-bang model in explaining certain puzzling data. It a...

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Fallait-il ?crire ces textes ? Apr?s le drame apocalyptique de la Shoah, ? seul le silence est grand, tout le reste est faiblesse ?. Je me suis tu. Pendant cinquante ans? Mais je suis faible, tr?s faible? Au moment de ce cinquanti?me anniversaire,...

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Au dbut des annes 60, Jean Claude Pecker demande faire renaitre l'observatoire de Nice, que Garnier et Eiffel avaient lev sous un ciel propice l'observation des astres, tomb dans l'oubli depuis, dlabr et rong par la rouille. Le succs de l'opration...

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Jean-Claude Pecker nous fait entrer au cA ur de la physique du XXIe siecle. Une histoire qui retrace, des origines a aujourd'hui, trois mille ans de sciences de l'Univers. Une histoire qui court des terrasses de Babylone aux observatoires interpla...

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Astronomy is the oldest and most fundamental of the natural sciences. From the early beginnings of civilization astronomers have attempted to explain not only what the Universe is and how it works, but also how it started, how it evolved to the pr...

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Astronomy is the oldest and most fundamental of the natural sciences. From the early beginnings of civilization astronomers have attempted to explain not only what the Universe is and how it works, but also how it started, how it evolved to the pr...

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Astronomy is the oldest and most fundamental of the natural sciences. From the early beginnings of civilization astronomers have attempted to explain not only what the Universe is and how it works, but also how it started, how it evolved to the pr...

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This is the latest effort in a sequence of presentations begun in 1949 with a series of lectures on long-focus photographic astrometry given by the author as Fulbright professor in Paris at the invitation by the late H. Mineur, at that time Direct...

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Socrates knew all that was known by his contemporaries. But already in the Middle Ages it was becoming difficult for a single man to have a truly encyclopedic view of all human knowledge. It is true that Pico della Mirandola, Pius II, Leonardo da ...

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Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit, The sky is, up above the roof, Si bleu, si calme! So blue, so calm! Un arbre, par-dessus Je toit, A tree there, up above the roof, Berce sa palme. Waves leaves of palm. La cloche, dans le ciel qu'on voit, A ch...

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Edith Alicia Mller (1918-1995) was the IAU General Secretary from 1976 to 1979, the first woman to have this responsibility. Many friends, students and colleagues, and others who have met Edith at different occasions, give in this book their memor...

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