This is an extensive revision of the first (and still, only) introductory astronomy text to take a discovery activities'' approach to learning astronomy, encouraging students to be active rather than passive learners. Students use an equipment kit included with the book to construct observing instruments, including a telescope, so they can carry out measurement activities and obtain direct experience in the scientific gathering and analyzing of data. The text is flexible; it is not a lab manual. The equipment kit is ...
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This is an extensive revision of the first (and still, only) introductory astronomy text to take a discovery activities'' approach to learning astronomy, encouraging students to be active rather than passive learners. Students use an equipment kit included with the book to construct observing instruments, including a telescope, so they can carry out measurement activities and obtain direct experience in the scientific gathering and analyzing of data. The text is flexible; it is not a lab manual. The equipment kit is available separately; it contains a simple telescope, a cross-staff, quadrant, spectroscope, Ray Box grill, telescope, and diffraction grating. Changes in this new edition include greater adaptability of the text, updated astrophysics, observations from the Voyager mission, discussion of grand unified theories and of the inflationary universe.
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Add this copy of Discovering Astronomy (Third Edition) to cart. $8.90, very good condition, Sold by Bookwitch rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Concord, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by John Wiley & Sons Inc, Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1995..
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Very Good. Book Quarto, softcover, light corner curl else VG in dark pictorial wraps. 540 pp. plus appendices, 20 page glossary, 15 page index. Many photos throughout. Preface and chapters on the nature and evolution of the solar system, techniques of astronomy, nature and evolution of stars, galaxies and the universe. Exciting stuff!
Add this copy of Discovering Astronomy to cart. $12.33, good condition, Sold by HPB-Red rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Wiley.
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Add this copy of Discovering Astronomy to cart. $12.33, fair condition, Sold by HPB-Red rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Wiley.
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