Astronomy History

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    • The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
    • Auteur(s): Peter Westwick
    • Narrateur(s): David de Vries
    • Durée: 7 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • On a moonless night in 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing....

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    • Auteur(s): Jo Marchant
    • Narrateur(s): Julie Eickhoff
    • Durée: 8 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-02-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells for the first time the full story of the 100-year quest to decipher the ancient Greek computer known as the Antikythera Mechanism....

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    • Human and Machine in Spaceflight
    • Auteur(s): David A. Mindell
    • Narrateur(s): Kyle Tait
    • Durée: 13 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-03-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Digital Apollo examines the design and execution of each of the six Apollo moon landings, drawing on transcripts and data telemetry from the flights, astronaut interviews, and NASA's extensive archives....

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    • The Mystery of Arundhati
    • Auteur(s): Nilesh Nilkanth Oak
    • Narrateur(s): Ashwin Mushran
    • Durée: 10 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-11-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In a drastic reevaluation of astronomy observations from Mahabharata, using high-tech tools of modern astronomy and low-tech tools of the logic of scientific discovery, Nilesh Oak’s extraordinary book presents ordinary theory of astronomy observations....

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    • How the Stars Made Us (and Who We Would Be Without Them)
    • Auteur(s): Roberto Trotta
    • Narrateur(s): George Weightman
    • Durée: 11 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-07
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • For as long as humans have lived, we have lived beneath the stars. But under the glow of today’s artificial lighting, we have lost the intimacy our ancestors once shared with the cosmos. In Starborn, cosmologist Roberto Trotta reveals how stargazing has shaped the course of human civilization....

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    • Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Nagel
    • Narrateur(s): Brian Troxell
    • Durée: 3 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-02-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value....

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    • The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
    • Auteur(s): Lisa Randall
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Sims
    • Durée: 13 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-03-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city descended from space to crash into Earth, creating a devastating cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs....

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    • The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA
    • Auteur(s): Amy Shira Teitel
    • Narrateur(s): Amy Shira Teitel
    • Durée: 8 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-10-23
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • NASA’s history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America’s space agency wasn’t created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts....

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    • A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
    • Auteur(s): Natalie Angier
    • Narrateur(s): Nike Doukas
    • Durée: 13 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-06-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Buckle up for a joy ride through physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy....

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    • The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
    • Auteur(s): Stephon Alexander
    • Narrateur(s): Don Hagen
    • Durée: 7 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-05-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander uses jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe....

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    • Auteur(s): Margot Lee Shetterly
    • Narrateur(s): Bahni Turpin
    • Durée: 4 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-11-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space....

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    • How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
    • Auteur(s): Dava Sobel
    • Narrateur(s): Cassandra Campbell
    • Durée: 12 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-12-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Dava Sobel returns with the story of a group of women whose contributions to the burgeoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe....

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    • And the Science Deniers
    • Auteur(s): Mario Livio
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Davis
    • Durée: 8 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-05-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • An insightful, accessible, and fresh interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history’s greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers - a cautionary tale for our time....

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    • Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe
    • Auteur(s): John Hands
    • Narrateur(s): Gildart Jackson
    • Durée: 31 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-02-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Cosmosapiens is a big-picture look at how human life emerged and evolved in the universe, incorporating the ideas of world-renowned experts....

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    • Auteur(s): Richard Holmes
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Noble
    • Durée: 15 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-31
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • From ambitious scientists rising above the clouds to analyse the air to war generals floating across enemy lines, Richard Holmes takes to the air in this heart-lifting history of pioneer balloonists....

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    • How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
    • Auteur(s): Sean Carroll
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Hogan
    • Durée: 10 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-12-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • Scientists have just announced an historic discovery on a par with the splitting of the atom: The Higgs boson, the key to understanding why mass exists has been found....

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    • A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
    • Auteur(s): Brian Keating
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen R. Thorne
    • Durée: 10 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers wielding BICEP2, the most powerful cosmology telescope ever made, revealed that they'd glimpsed the spark that ignited the Big Bang - or so they'd thought....

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    • A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
    • Auteur(s): Dava Sobel
    • Narrateur(s): George Guidall
    • Durée: 10 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-03-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world.....

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    • Auteur(s): Mike Brown
    • Narrateur(s): Ryan Gesell
    • Durée: 7 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-12-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 évaluations
    • The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto at the outer edge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made the discovery of a lifetime: a tenth planet, Eris, slightly bigger than Pluto....

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