Archives of the universe Book

1	Mayan Venus tables	7
2	Proof that the Earth is a sphere	12
3	Celestial surveying	18
4	Measuring the Earth's circumference	24
5	Precession of the equinoxes	28
6	Ptolemy's Almagest	32
7	Copernicus and the sun-centered universe	51
8	Tycho Brahe and the changing heavens	61
9	Johannes Kepler and planetary motion	67
10	Galileo initiates the telescopic era	76
11	Newton's universal law of gravity	90
12	Halley's comet	99
13	Binary stars	106
14	The speed of light	117
15	The solar system's origin	121
16	Discovery of Uranus	128
17	Stars moving and changing	134
18	The first asteroid	147
19	Distance to a star	153
20	Discovery of Neptune	160
21	The shape of the Milky Way	168
22	Spiraling nebulae	189
23	Spectral lines	203
24	Deciphering the solar spectrum	211
25	Gaseous nebulae	218
26	Doppler shifts and spectroscopic binaries	226
27	Classification of the stars	233
28	Giant stars and dwarf stars	241
29	Hydrogen : the prime element	250
30	Stellar mass, luminosity, and stability	257
31	Sunspot cycle, Sun/Earth connection, and helium	261
32	Origin of meteors and shooting stars	272
33	Cosmic rays	279
34	Discovery of Pluto	285
35	Special relativity and E = mc[superscript 2]	295
36	General relativity and the solar eclipse test	302
37	Relativistic models of the universe	313
38	Big bang versus steady state	320
39	White dwarf stars	327
40	Beyond the white dwarf	334
41	Supernovae and neutron stars	339
42	Black holes	344
43	Source of stellar power	349
44	Creating elements in the big bang	358
45	Cosmic microwave background predicted	363
46	Creating elements in the stars	366
47	A star's life cycle	377
48	Cepheids : the cosmic standard candles	385
49	Sun's place in the Milky Way	390
50	Dark nebulae and interstellar matter	398
51	Discovery of other galaxies	407
52	Expansion of the universe	415
53	Stellar populations and resizing the universe	425
54	Mapping the Milky Way's spiral arms	433
55	Source and composition of comets	440
56	Radio astronomy	455
57	Interstellar hydrogen	465
58	Molecules in space	471
59	Van Allen radiation belts	476
60	Geology of Mars	484
61	Extrasolar x-ray sources	495
62	Quasars	503
63	Evidence for the big bang	508
64	Pulsars	513
65	The infrared sky and the galactic center	522
66	Neutrino astronomy	529
67	Gamma-ray bursts	540
68	Binary pulsar and gravity waves	546
69	Dark matter	559
70	Gravitational lensing	568
71	Inflation	576
72	The bubbly universe	583
73	Galaxy evolution and the Hubble Deep Field	591
74	Extrasolar planets	598
75	The accelerating universe	608