Reviews for Astronomy

The average rating for Astronomy based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-09-11 00:00:00 Donald Jacobson This is a text for an introductory astronomy course. One of the main goals is to provide a broad enough and deep enough backround in astronomy so the student will be able to follow current developments in astronomy years after they complete the course. This book presumes that most of its readers are not science majors and that they probably have not had a college-level science or mathematics course. The book provides a complete description of current astronomical knowledge, neither at an extreme technical level nor at a level that fails to communicate the quantitative nature of physical science. Finally, the historical development of astronomy is emphasized to show that astronomy, like other sciences, advances through the efforts of many scientists, and to show how present ideas have been developed.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-12-02 00:00:00 Sergiu Vladu Of the texts not strictly related to my degree, or the courses I took in language and music in college, this was one of the few I kept! What a great book this is, covering essential and key concepts relevant to our modern understanding of physics and astronomy. The book also comes with electronic source material, making it an especially good focus of reference for the field of astronomy. Five Stars (with respect to similar text books) * * * * * !