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41. Astronomy Demystified (Demystified) by Stan Gibilisco | |
Paperback: 575
Pages
(2002-08-01)
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The Demystified series are great
Great Self-teaching guide!
The writer can't keep facts straight
I love the "Demystified" series
Takes us on mind journeys |
42. Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy by Robert Hewitt Brown | |
Hardcover: 118
Pages
(2010-09-10)
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Explains some things
Elucidating - KhepeRA (The Prodigal Sun)
why the IMPORTANT OMISSIONS?
Amazing So Glad this was put togeter and re-printed
An absolute must own. |
43. Cambridge Illustrated Dictionary of Astronomy by Jacqueline Mitton | |
Hardcover: 416
Pages
(2008-01-28)
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A thoroughly cross-referenced, easy-to-use reference and resource |
44. A Brief Introduction to Astronomy in the Middle East by John M. Steele | |
Paperback: 140
Pages
(2008-05-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description The Middle East was both the birthplace of astronomy and the center for its development during the medieval period, and this volume offers a fascinating insight into Arabic advances in astronomy and their profound influence on science in the rest of the world. This is the first of two titles published to launch a new series offering insight into Arabic advances in science and culture. Aimed at the general reader, the titles are illustrated and contain glossaries, indices, and suggestions for further reading. John M. Steele is a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Durham. |
45. Foundations of Astronomy by Michael A. Seeds, Dana Backman | |
Hardcover: 672
Pages
(2010-01-01)
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VERY NICE
Great purchase!
I didn't care for this book
Great basic astronomy textbook, for beginners only |
46. Astronomy: A Visual Guide by Mark A. Garlick PhD | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(2009-02-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Astronomy provides a survey of science's growing understanding of space, including facts on space research and space probes. Packed with stunning images and diagrams, the book features: Astronomy is a highly recommended, fascinating and easy-to-use illustrated reference for amateur astronomers of all levels. (20090315)Customer Reviews (5)
Great pics and short, clear explanations.
Caught my Child's Eyes
Great pics
Awe Inspiring.
Easy To Follow, Beautiful Photos ............ |
47. The Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium (with AceAstronomy?, Virtual Astronomy Labs Printed Access Card) by Jay M. Pasachoff, Alex Filippenko | |
Paperback: 480
Pages
(2006-03-03)
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Out of this world
Excellent base astronomy text
Purchased for college but enjoyed reading it anyway
Beautiful book, timely delivery
Wonderful Book |
48. Stargazing Basics: Getting Started in Recreational Astronomy by Paul E. Kinzer | |
Paperback: 160
Pages
(2008-10-27)
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Everything I needed to know to get started with amateur astronomy
Black-and-white astronomical photographs taken by the writer illustrate this handy reference
Excellent brief guide for complete beginner |
49. Astronomy (Science & Its Secrets) by Steck-Vaughn Company, Raintree Publishers Inc | |
Paperback: 63
Pages
(1988-01)
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50. Photoshop Astronomy by R. Scott Ireland | |
Paperback: 310
Pages
(2009-06-09)
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Fantastic product
Excellent!!!!
Great source of detailed explanations and step-by-step |
51. 21st Century Astronomy (Full Third Edition) by Jeff Hester, Bradford Smith, George Blumenthal, Laura Kay, Howard Voss | |
Paperback: 651
Pages
(2010-01-11)
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Astronomy textbook
A teacher in a book
One of the best!
A Favorite Astronomy Textbook
Out of this world |
52. Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology by John North | |
Paperback: 736
Pages
(2008-07-15)
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An amazing accomplishment |
53. Holt Science & Technology: Astronomy Short Course J by Rheinhart And Winston Holt | |
Hardcover: 211
Pages
(2007-01-31)
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54. Pathways to Astronomy by Stephen E. Schneider, Thomas T. Arny | |
Paperback: 800
Pages
(2008-10-08)
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Easy to read |
55. Astronomy and the Bible,: Questions and Answers by Donald B. DeYoung | |
Paperback: 176
Pages
(2000-04-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description As Donald DeYoung explains, astronomy tells us much about Gods vast creation and his daily care for us. This book answers many basic questions such as: What causes the seasons?How are star distances measured?Is the universe expanding?What was the Star of Bethlehem? Suggested sources for in-depth study, a glossary, and Scripture and subject indexes are included. Customer Reviews (7)
Astronomy and the Bible:Disclosing the Glory of God in Creation
Astronomy from a Perspective of Creation
I've used this book
Contaminated Astronomy This book does contain quite a bit of information on astronomy. As such, it could be a good introductory book. Unfortunately, the science is contaminated with creationist propaganda and superfluous Bible references. Only someone already knowledgeable in the field would be able to separate these tares from the wheat of science. I strongly recommend some other book on astronomy, preferably secular. "The Physical Universe" by Frank Shu, for example. This book is better than "Starlight and Time" and "Tornado in a Junkyard," which I've already reviewed on Amazon.com. In "Starlight and Time," Russell Humphreys completely disregards all physical consequences of his white-hole theory. In "Tornado in a Junkyard," James Perloff distorts or disregards pretty much everything known in modern science. Here, Professor DeYoung gives plenty of accurate information, but also some distortions. DeYoung does tell us about the immense distances involved in the universe. Our galaxy is about 100,000 light years across. The Andromeda galaxy, he says, is about 2.9 million light-years away. The large Magellanic Cloud, where Supernova 1987A occured, is about 180,000 light-years away. There are many many galaxies much farther away. The most distant objects, the quasars, are billions of light-years away. The speed of light is one light-year per year. Since we can see things billions of light-years away, the universe must be billions of years old. So what's the problem? The problem is that creationists come up with all sorts of crackpot theories to explain how we can see distant objects even with a young universe. DeYoung presents five such theories on pp. 89-90, including one detailed in "Starlight and Time." Four of them predict enormous physical phenomena that are absent in nature. The fifth theory is that God created the light while in transit when it created the universe 6000 years ago. That theory is a variant on "Last Thursdayism," the idea that we were created last Thursday with our memories completely intact and everything around us matching. The two problems with the "Last Thursdayism" theory are that it's completely unverifiable and unfalsifiable, and it means that God committed an enormous fraud on us by creating massive evidence of a history that didn't occur. DeYoung tries to answer whether Supernova 1987A actually occured, under "Last Thursdayism." The obvious answer is no, because it would have occured long before the creation of the universe. God would have had to make the explosive light, the matching neutrinos, the light from the prior star that exploded (a blue supergiant), the light from the remains of the supernova, etc. in flight.But DeYoung makes a convoluted attempt to argue that the supernova actually did occur -- something to the effect that it happened in God's imagination, and God is truth, so it happened. DeYoung tells us that many different estimations of the age of the universe give widely varying results, from thousands of years to billions of years. The problem is that the young-universe estimations have been thoroughly debunked. (See any typical anticreationist book, or www.talkorigins.org.) Those estimations have used absurd assumptions and have disregarded well-established basic science. DeYoung believes that a "vapor canopy" of water existed above the atmosphere before the flood (p. 88). Genesis 1 states that God created a "firmament" in the sky, separating the waters above from the waters below. However, in the fourth day, when God created the sun, moon, and stars, God set them in the firmament. That means that the "vapor canopy" existed not only above the atmosphere, but beyond all the stars as well. In fact, the world-view of Genesis 1 is either geocentric or flat-earth -- most likely flat-earth, because nothing in Genesis 1 portrays anything more than a "heaven above" and an "earth beneath." (Exodus 20:4) The sun and moon are small balls of light, and the stars are tiny points of light, which can fall to earth (Revelation 6:13). I've not seen anything in the Bible that unambiguously identifies a round earth. That includes Job 26:7, which DeYoung cites as indicating a round earth (p. 17). On the other hand, there are a few indications that the earth is flat: Isaiah 40: 22, Matthew 4: 8. I agree with DeYoung, that the six days of Genesis 1 are literal days, contrary to the claims of Hugh Ross and others that days refer to ages or eons. Genesis 1 has day and night created before the sun, moon, and stars; and vegetation created before the sun. What this means is that the author of Genesis 1 didn't connect daylight with sunlight, and that Genesis 1 is simply wrong. Contrary to DeYoung's claim on p. 17, "When the Bible touches on scientific subjects, it is entirely accurate," the Bible is frequently wrong. There is NO science in the Bible.
Almost garbage - useless, unscientific, not good theology As far as creation-science books go, I give this one two stars becuase the author clearly understands science, and uses some good scientific data and honesty, much more so than others of his ilk. However, whenever he makes a very valid scientific point, he then careens off into a bizarre creationist perspective that makes no sense. As any good scientist knows, one collects data, and then draws conclusions. One does not, as the creation-scientists do, make a hypothersis and then find the data to prove it (in their case, they are always proving that everything in the Bible is literally true, no matter how obviuosly it isn't, and so comletely ignore any discoveries that are in disagreement no matter how often that data has been reproduced, and instead focus on data that was gathered through questionable proceeses, or interpreted in questionable ways, usually having been done a fair distance in the past with imprecise tools). These are scientific shennanigans that any junior high science student would be able to pick up on as just plain wrong. I am saddened that Christians are out there who are so literally married to the idea that the Bible is a scientific textbook. The Bible is TRUTH, but it is not always FACT, and there's a big difference. The author re-arranges and re-numbers scientifically valid data to "prove" his point. There is absolutely nothing theologically wrong with admitting that the stars are billions of years old, billions of years away, and that the universe is even older than that. Please stop trying to force science to fit some misinterpreted Biblical claim (a claim which the Bible doesn't even make, which a close reading of the Bible will show you). There is some truly valid and well-thought scientific theology being done, especially from the Center for Theology and Natural Science at the Pacific School of Religion. If you want theological science, go there - their scientists are able to see and interpret scientific data in a scientific way, and are not clouded by forcing data to fit a Biblical model which doesn't even exist to begin with. Read this book if you are interested in what the creation-scientists are doing. But don't read it because you are looking for scientific method and process. It ain't that at all. This book serves only to further make Christians look silly in the eyes of their non-Christian peers. ... Read more |
56. Prentice Hall Science Explorer Astronomy by Jay M. Pasachoff | |
Hardcover: 198
Pages
(2008-03-30)
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PH-Astronomy Book |
57. Sharing the Skies: Navajo Astronomy by David Begay, Nancy C. Maryboy | |
Paperback: 72
Pages
(2010-03-02)
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native american teaching tools |
58. My Heavens!: The Adventures of a Lonely Stargazer Building an Over-the-Top Observatory (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series) by Gordon Rogers | |
Paperback: 180
Pages
(2007-12-06)
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Editorial Review Product Description My Heavens! charts the progress of the author’s own substantial observatory (with additional material from amateur constructors of large observatories elsewhere) from conception, through design, planning and construction, to using an observatory of the kind that all amateur astronomers would aspire to own. This book tells the “warts and all” story of small beginnings in amateur astronomy, leading to the construction of a “top of the range” observatory at a house on the edge of a country village between Oxford and London. The author is a qualified building surveyor, and looks at building the observatory from his own professional perspective. There were of course many errors, problems, technical and organizational difficulties along the way, and the author never shies away from admitting his mistakes – and in doing so he reduces the chances of others falling into the same traps. Comparisons are made with similar large projects in the USA, taking a look at the differences and similarities in planning and building regulations, and in construction methods on both sides of the Atlantic. Eventually an observatory materialized, set up to facilitate the taking of very high quality images of the deep sky on those special days of best seeing. The story doesn’t end with the construction of the observatory, but goes on to describe the author’s choice of equipment, setting it up, and his own techniques for obtaining superb astronomical images like the ones he shows in his book. Customer Reviews (1)
Amateur Astronomers and Their Observatories |
59. Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe, Fourth Edition by Eric Chaisson, Steve McMillan | |
Paperback: 552
Pages
(2003-07-23)
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great seller!
Astronomy book
good condition and speedy delivery
Way too expensive for a paperback
Astronomy Text Book |
60. Schaum's Outline of Astronomy by Stacey Palen | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(2001-11-12)
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Probably OK for a high school class
Not a rave
Good supplement for Introductory Astronomy
As easy as ABC |
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