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Book Review: The Cambridge Atlas Of Herschel Objects, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: The Cambridge Atlas Of Herschel Objects, T. D. Oswalt
Publications
This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of The Cambridge Atlas of Herschel Objects by James Mullaney and Wil Tirion Cambridge, 2011 183p, 0521138175 $35.00, 9780521138178 $35.00.
Star Messangers, Paul Zimet, Ellen Maddow
Star Messangers, Paul Zimet, Ellen Maddow
Kahn Institute Projects
Star Messengers is a musical theater work about two scientists, Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler, who changed our view of the universe. Writer Paul Zimet and composer Ellen Maddow have created a carnival of genres—opera, Com- media dell’Arte, Strindbergian Dream Play, and contemporary dance/theater—to produce a theatrical language that conveys the wonder of Galileo’s and Kepler’s discoveries.
While some aspects of Galileo’s life and discoveries are well known, hardly anything is popularly known of his scientific contemporaries. Johannes Kepler’s realization that the planets moved not in perfect circles, but in elliptical paths, was a leap of mind as extraordinary as …
Einstein's Life: Advanced Science And Life In The Modern Age, Shane L. Larson
Einstein's Life: Advanced Science And Life In The Modern Age, Shane L. Larson
Public Talks
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Book Review: Exploring Mars: Chronicles From A Decade Of Discovery, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: Exploring Mars: Chronicles From A Decade Of Discovery, T. D. Oswalt
Publications
This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of Exploring Mars : Chronicles from a Decade of Discovery by Scott Hubbard. Arizona, 2011 194p, 9780816521111 $45.00, 9780816528967 $17.95.