Scientific Classification Manual. Space and Astronomy (English-Chinese Contrastive)

Author: (USA) Angelo
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: With the advancement of technology, it has become increasingly difficult for students and teachers to obtain direct and rapid answers to fundamental scientific and weather/climate questions. Therefore, they will welcome the "Science Classification Handbook: Space and Astronomy" by U.S. FactsOnFile Publishing. The "Science Classification Handbook" series covers the following disciplines: Weather and Climate, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Oceanography, Physics, Space and Astronomy, Algebra, Calculus, and Geometry. It is an invaluable bilingual dictionary series organized systematically by academic disciplines. The "Science Classification Handbook: Weather and Climate" by U.S. FactsOnFile Publishing includes the following sections:
Terminology: The book contains over 2,200 entries, many of which are accompanied by simple diagrams to help explain the terms. Topics include: absolute temperature, cosmic rays, extraterrestrial life, the greenhouse effect, the Milky Way, orbital mechanics, radiation, solar wind, ultraviolet rays, and weightlessness.
People: It introduces more than 400 scientists and astronomers from ancient times to the present, whose discoveries have advanced humanity's understanding of astronomy. These scientists include: Scott Carpenter, Henry Deacon, James Gregory, John F. Kennedy, Ferdinand Magellan, Pythagoras, Harold C. Urey, John W. Young, and Alan B. Shepard Jr.
Chronology: It spans nearly 8,000 years of astronomical development in humanity's pursuit of space and astronomical phenomena, including major discoveries and significant events in astronomy; the construction of the Knidos naked-eye astronomical observatory by the Greek astronomer Eudoxus; the supernova discovered in the constellation Cassiopeia by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe; the invention of the astrolabe by the French physicist Pierre Bouguer; and the meticulously crafted solar research tower by the American astronomer George Ellery Hale, among others.