What's Up with Astronomy?

by Chris McCarthy

Book Overview

Designed to help students better understand how science works and how it impacts their daily lives, What's Up with Astronomy? provides readers with an illuminating discussion of how astronomy became a science, the lived experiences and contributions of key astronomers throughout time, and how modern scientific theories are questioned and checked.

The opening chapter illustrates how Earth's rotation gives us the day, Earth's orbit...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1793507074
• ISBN13: 9781793507075
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 10.0"