Astronomy History

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Auteur(s): Isaac Asimov
    • Narrateur(s): Jon Lindstrom
    • Durée: 11 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A thrilling nonfiction tour of the cosmos that brings the universe down to Earth, from one of the all-time masters of science fiction....

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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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    • 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 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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    • Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
    • Auteur(s): Govert Schilling, Martin Rees
    • Narrateur(s): Joel Richards
    • Durée: 11 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-09-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • The quest for gravitational waves involved years of risky research and many personal and professional struggles that threatened to derail one of the world's largest scientific endeavors....

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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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    • 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 History and Legacy of NASA’s Human Spaceflight Missions Before the Apollo Program
    • Auteur(s): Charles River Editors
    • Narrateur(s): Daniel Houle
    • Durée: 2 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-19
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Project Gemini is a neglected part of the US space program. Sandwiched between the excitement of Project Mercury and the sending of the first American astronauts to space and the euphoria of the Apollo Moon landings, Gemini was a step forward rather than a dramatic leap....

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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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    • 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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    • Civilization and the Stars
    • Auteur(s): Jo Marchant
    • Narrateur(s): Jo Marchant
    • Durée: 11 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • A historically unprecedented disconnect between humanity and the heavens has opened. Jo Marchant's book can begin to heal it....

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    • George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate
    • Auteur(s): Paul Halpern
    • Narrateur(s): David Stifel
    • Durée: 9 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A respected physics professor and author breaks down the great debate over the big bang and the continuing quest to understand the fate of the universe....

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    • The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
    • Auteur(s): Jim Bell
    • Narrateur(s): Jim Bell
    • Durée: 7 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-02-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission, told by a scientist who was there from the beginning....

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