First Edition. One of the most influential books on the Challenger space shuttle disaster and a notable work on the sociology of decision-making. According to Google Scholar, this book has been cited 5000 times in the academic literature. Vaughn is a professor of sociology at Columbia University. 575 pages. First.....
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![Item No: #361809 Die Entstehung der Mondkrater [The Formation of Lunar Craters]....](/pictures/thumb/361809.jpg?v=1665013052)
First Edition. A notable paper on the impact origin of moon craters. Wegener considers the three leading explanations at the time—the bubble or explosion hypothesis, the tidal hypothesis, and the volcanic hypothesis—and finds them inadequate. He then elaborates his own theory of projectile hypothesis, which he simulated by impacting cement.....
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First Edition. Interviews with 27 cosmologists, including Stephen Hawking. Lightman achieved critical success as a novelist with his book Einstein's Dreams. 561 pages. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a half-inch closed tear on the rear.....
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First Edition. A very optimistic report on 31 comets that could be reached by a space probe by 1977. "The general conclusion of this study is that a mission to a comet is completely feasable and could be carried out into the very near future." The report provides diagrams and.....
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First Edition. viii, 512, 21 pages. 8 by 10-1/2 inches. Includes reports of the British expeditions of the Hawaiian (Sandwich) Islands (pp. 1 to 256); Egypt (pp. 257 to 346); Rodriguez Island (now Rodrigues; pp. 347 to 400); Kerguelen Island (Desolation Islands; pp. 401 to 480); and New Zealand (pp.....
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First Edition. 749 pages. Reproduced from typescript. First edition (first printing). Near find hardcover.
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First Edition. Lacaille was a French astronomer known for his intensive interest in calculation and observation. The heart of this book is devoted to those two subjects, with many chapters addressing optical illusions resulting from the motion of the earth, which must be corrected for in order to obtain good.....
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Second edition, revised. x, 689, plus 80 black-and-white plates. Text in German. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a couple of short edge tears.
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First Edition. 77 pages; plus two plates showing equipment and a large fold-out plan of the Sydney Observatory. Includes reports on the calculation of the longitude of the observatory in Sydney and extensive tables of mean right ascensions and north polar distances of stars observed in 1877 and 1878. Russell, according.....
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First English Language Edition. 559 pages. Translated by the author from the second German edition. Brunnow was a German astronomer who served as the director of the Detroit Observatory from 1854 to 1863, where he introduced advanced European astronomical concepts to the US. He translated his Lehrbuch der sphärischen Astronomie.....
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![Item No: #9082 The Search for Life in the Universe [Inscribed]. Donald...](/pictures/thumb/9082.jpg?v=1604692986)
436 pages. Foreword by Carl Sagan. Second printing. Very good to near fine in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed to the Harvard paleontologist and National Book Award-winning writer Stephen Jay Gould. "To Steve Gould, with best wishes. Don Goldsmith."
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