This eBook provides a highly visual introduction to some basic astronomy concepts that everyone should know, like explaining the phases of the moon and earth-based evidence of the heliocentric model. (See below for full contents.)
This 2015 edition is in a print replica format, meaning that it works with pinch-and-zoom. Pinch the image to zoom, and use your finger to scroll. On smaller screens, it may read better in landscape mode. The original edition was published in 2012; the 2015 print replica format allows for pinch-and-zoom reading.
There is another, newer astronomy eBook by the same author which has much more text, has more pictures, covers more topics, and has the text separate from the images so that the font can be resized. The other eBook is also much longer, as the paperback edition of that book has 186 pages.
The author, Chris McMullen, is a physics and astronomy instructor at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at Oklahoma State University in phenomenological high-energy physics (particle physics). His doctoral dissertation was on the collider phenomenology of superstring-inspired large extra dimensions, a field in which he has coauthored several papers.
Educators may use this material in the classroom for the purpose of teaching astronomy concepts. The photos are NASA space photos. (NASA did not participate in the writing or publication of this eBook.) In some of the images, the author combined NASA photos together to form a single, new image or added line drawings and text to the NASA photos.
Contents:
This 2015 edition is in a print replica format, meaning that it works with pinch-and-zoom. Pinch the image to zoom, and use your finger to scroll. On smaller screens, it may read better in landscape mode. The original edition was published in 2012; the 2015 print replica format allows for pinch-and-zoom reading.
There is another, newer astronomy eBook by the same author which has much more text, has more pictures, covers more topics, and has the text separate from the images so that the font can be resized. The other eBook is also much longer, as the paperback edition of that book has 186 pages.
The author, Chris McMullen, is a physics and astronomy instructor at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at Oklahoma State University in phenomenological high-energy physics (particle physics). His doctoral dissertation was on the collider phenomenology of superstring-inspired large extra dimensions, a field in which he has coauthored several papers.
Educators may use this material in the classroom for the purpose of teaching astronomy concepts. The photos are NASA space photos. (NASA did not participate in the writing or publication of this eBook.) In some of the images, the author combined NASA photos together to form a single, new image or added line drawings and text to the NASA photos.
Contents:
- Overview of the solar system
- Understanding the lunar phases
- Understanding solar and lunar eclipses
- Understanding the seasons
- Evidence that the earth is round
- Ptolemy’s geocentric model
- Aristarchus’/Copernicus’ heliocentric model
- Understanding retrograde motion
- Objections to the heliocentric model
- Overcoming objections to the heliocentric model
- Evidence for the heliocentric model
