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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

How did the ancients divine the future from the stars? What is Jupiter made of? Why doesn't the Sun burn up? How does the Hubble telescope work? Why is Earth the only planet with life on it? How do we know Pluto exists? Find out the answers to these and many other questions in this fascinating new look at astronomy. Superb, full-colour photography of scientific instruments, experiments, and innovative 3-D models reveals the discoveries and research that have transformed our understanding of the Universe.

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-The Study of the Heavens.
-Ancient Astronomy.
-Ordering the Universe.
-The Celestial Sphere.
-The Uses of Astronomy.
-Astrology.
-The Copernican Revolution.
-Intellectual Giants.
-Optical Principles.
-The Optical Telescope.
-Observatories.
-The Astronomer.
-Spectroscopy.
-The Radio Telescope.
-Venturing Into Space.
-The Solar System.
-The Sun.
-The Moon.
-The Earth.
-Mercury.
-Venus.
-Mars.
-Jupiter.
-Saturn.
-Uranus.
-Neptune and Pluto.
-Travellers in Space.
-The Birth and Death of Stars.
-Our Galaxy and Beyond.

-Index.

OUR REVIEW

Published in cooperation with the Old Royal Observatory of Greenwich, Astronony is the 14th volume of the well known series Eyewitness Science, whose main trait is the graphic wealth illustrating the themes dealt with in each work. Aimed at the young people or readers having a scarce knowledge in the matter, it presents each chapter in a double page format with little text, a lot of pictures and a great didactic value. The collection, published in Great Britain by Dorling Kindersley, is also published in several other languages, like for example Spanish. The themes we can find in this book are basically centered in the history of Astronomy (how the great astronomical findings took place) and the Solar system, with suitable descriptions of each one of its members. The last pages have been devoted to the space travellers, life of the stars, as well as our galaxy and beyond.

We will never cease to remark how important this kind of books is. Its simplicity and its devotion to divulge the sciences to a very definite sector in the readership, the one that not necessarily has got to have an updated knowledge about scientific novelties, has an invaluable merit. The success of such a prestigious collection is in a way a good indication of the interest awakened by Science in the people, as well as the moderate character this kind of works must have.