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Engaging Essays In Cosmology by A. Tomilin

  About the Book A book of essays and short stories in three parts and ten chapters about the people and the achievements of the great science of the structure and development of the Universe from antiquity to the present … Continue reading

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Relativity and Man – V. Smilga

Our task is to comprehend the purely physical essence of the theory, without going into problems which cannot be explained here with sufficient clarity. After seeing three books (RTG and STG) on General Relativity (GR) and one Special Theory of … Continue reading

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Y. Ryabov – Celestial Mechanics

How do the heavenly bodies move, and how are these movements related to one another? What forces of nature govern such motions? We now come to another jewel of a book titled Celestial Mechanics by Y. Ryabov. This book discusses … Continue reading

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