Why Is It Dark at Night?: Story of Dark Night Sky Paradox

by Peter Zamarovský

Book Overview

"Why is it dark at night?" might seem a fatuous question at first sight. In reality it is an extremely productive question that has been asked from the very beginning of the modern age, not only by astronomers, for whom it is most appropriate, but also by physicists, philosophers, and even poets. The book you have just opened uses this question as a pretext to relate in the most interesting way the history of human thought from the earliest times...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1491878800
• ISBN13: 9781491878804
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Authorhouse UK
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"