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Exploring Space to Explore the Past / Explorer l'espace pour remonter le temps

Exploring Space to Explore the Past / Explorer l'espace pour remonter le temps


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Not only does this book recount the history of the representation of space through the ages (as illustrated by Giotto's paintings, Galileo's physics and Cassini's cartography), it also tells the tale of space exploration via the probes named after these great historical figures. The Giotto space probe provided images of the core of Halley's famous comet; the Galileo space probe explored Jupiter and its moons; the Cassini probe explored Saturn and its satellites. The author shows that the aim of space exploration is not simply to accumulate knowledge about all of the planets, but rather to understand the origin of our solar system in order to anticipate future events.Travelling in space and learning more about space are seen here as ways of exploring Time and the history of the Universe.Giovanni Fabrizio Bignami is a professor of astronomy at the University of Pavia and the scientific director of the Italian Space Agency. / L'exploration spatiale a commenc le 25 mai 1961, lorsque le pr sident Kennedy a lanc un d fi sa nation: envoyer un homme sur la Lune et le ramener sain et sauf sur Terre. Ce succ s, en moins d'une d cennie, fait date dans l'histoire... Ce livre raconte l'histoire des missions scientifiques d'exploration spatiale qui n'ont cess depuis: Giotto la rencontre de la com te de Halley, Galileo la d couverte des lunes de Jupiter, Cassini pour explorer le syst me de Saturne, Bepi Colombo qui va tre lanc vers Mercure, BeppoSAX et RossiXTE pour voir le ciel aux rayons X. Cette extraordinaire aventure n'en est qu' ses d buts; un seul but: remonter le temps de l'Univers. Pour mieux comprendre comment se sont constitu s notre syst me solaire, notre plan te et la vie sur Terre.Giovanni-Fabrizio Bignami, astrophysicien, dirige le Centre d' tude spatiale des rayonnements de Toulouse. Il est pr sident du comit scientifique de l'Agence spatiale europ enne et membre de l'Accademia dei Lincei.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9782738117069
  • Publisher: Odile Jacob
  • Publisher Imprint: Odile Jacob
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 200
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 2738117066
  • Publisher Date: 04 Jan 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: French
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 286 gr


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