Discovering the Universe: The Story of Astronomy

Introduction 1 Monuments and calculators 2 Eyes on the sky 3 Patterns in the sky - the beginning of astronomy 4 The nature of the Earth-centred universe 5 Astronomy in the dark 6 Revolutions of the heavenly spheres: Copernicus 7 Measuring the skies from the City of the Stars 8 Galileo Galilei 9 Cosmographic mysteries 10 Universal attraction 11 New eyes on the sky 12 New planets 13 The stars 14 The life of stars 15 The death of stars 16 New windows on the universe 17 Exploding stars 18 The origin of the chemical elements 19 The birth of stars and planets 20 Exploration of the planets 21 The inner planets 22 The Earth, the Moon and Mars 23 The gas giants 24 Other planetary systems 25 Our Galaxy and others 26 The universe of galaxies 27 Exploding galaxies and quasars 28 The expanding universe 29 Dark matter and dark energy 30 Life in the Universe Index Credits