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- From: kristin@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Kristin Kearns)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: Cosmology/Galaxy textbook ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.163935.1382@head-cfa.harvard.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:39:35 GMT
- References: <19JAN199316195603@vxcrna.cern.ch> <TIM.93Jan20110523@nijinsky.ipac.caltech.edu>
- Sender: kristin@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Kristin Kearns)
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- I took a class last semester that used the text "Cosmology: the Science of the
- Universe" (how original!) by Edward R. Harrison. It is a readable text, with
- even a glimmer of humor now and then, but it doesnt skimp on the math when
- necessary, and gets deeper into the fundamentals of cosmological theory,
- particularly various models of the universe, than most introductory texts.
- Definately not a "gee-whiz-for-non-science-types" book. The major drawback is
- that it was published in 1981 (Cambridge University Press), and is thus a little
- out of date in some areas. Also, this may make it hard to find. (If it helps
- to define the level, the class was an independent study in my last year undergrad
- in astro.)
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- -kristin
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