Astronomy: Journey to the Cosmic Frontier

by John D. Fix

Hardcover, 1995

Status

Available

Call number

QB43.2.F59 1995

Genres

Publication

St. Louis : Mosby, c1995.

Description

Provides a text for an introductory astronomy course for students to follow developments in astronomy. This book presumes that most of its readers are not science majors and that they probably have not had a college-level science or mathematics course. It provides a description of astronomical knowledge in a suitable technical level.

Subjects

Astronomy

Language

English

Physical description

622 p.; 29 cm

ISBN

0801674492 / 9780801674495

Local notes

3D glasses in back cover

Barcode

467

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