The mystery of the sea cave / [text by Anna Casalis] ; [illustrations by] Matt Wolf
- Bib ID:
- 4273441
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Casalis, Anna
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Rowville, Vic. : Five Mile Press, 2007
- 27 p. : col. ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781741788631
- Series:
- Casalis, Anna. Lighthouse tales.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Units
- 1. Telescopes 1
- 2. The Night Sky 9
- 3. Star Magnitudes and Stellar Parallax 15
- 4. The Message of Starlight 21
- 5. The HR Diagram 29
- 6. Stellar Life Cycles 37
- 7. Galaxies and the Universe 45
- 8. Measuring the Sky 55
- 9. Greek Models of the Heavens 63
- 10. A Sun-Centered Universe 71
- 11 Founders of a Science 81
- 12 The Search for the Outer Planets 89
- 13. Evolution of the Solar System 95
- 14 Space Debris: Asteroids, Meteors, and Coets 103
- Appendices
- A. Scales 111
- B Changing Faces of the Moon 113
- C The Sun 117
- D. Planetary Data 121
- E. Properties of the Thirty Nearest Stars 123
- F Properties of the Twenty Brightest Stars 125
- G. Sk Maps 127
- Activities
- 1. Designing an Observatory 143
- 2. Lenses and Telescopes 151
- 3.Star Charts 155
- 4. Trigonometric Parallax 157
- 5. Stellar Spectra Classification 165
- 6. HR Diagrams 173
- 7. Spectroscopic Parallax 181
- 8. Stellar Evolution 183
- 9. Galaxy Classification 185
- 10. Hubble's Law 191
- 11. Distances to the Moon and Sun 195
- 12. Tracing Epicycles 201
- 13. Determining the Orbit of Mars 205
- 14. The Phases of Venus 209
- 15. Mapping the Solar System From Earth 215
- 16. Moon Phases 221.
- Notes:
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- "First published in Italy in 2005."--P. [4]
- For pre-school children.
- Subject:
- Animals -- Juvenile fiction
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2007
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