Universe by Martin Rees (Editor) (1-Oct-2012) Hardcover

by Martin Rees

Hardcover

About the author

Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He is the fifteenth Astronomer Royal, appointed in 1995, and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 2004 to 2012 and President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010. He has received various physics awards including the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2024 for fundamental contributions to high-energy astrophysics, galaxies and structure formation, and cosmology.

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Reviews

[Hans Dunkelberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have paid a little bit for this book, but I do not regret it. I now have a well-usable work of reference. I easily find chapters on bodies of the Solar System because the book is intuitively sorted by the distances of bodies from the Sun. Using this book to me is like a little excursion into space, each time, thanks to grandiose illustrations. I also owe this book the possibility to determine in which direction the Milky Way rotates above me in the night sky, which to find out otherwise is astoundingly hard.