[livros-loureiro] ebooks- Binocular Astronomy - Escaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and the Sixties

1-   ebook - Cosmic Vistas. A Popular History of Astronomy   http://rapidshare.com/files/376712318/Cosmic_Vistas.rar.html   Publisher: National Book Trust, New Delhi 2002 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 8123739427 | PDF | 7 MB With advancements in observation techniques over the millennia, mankind's ideas about the cosmos have changed dramatically. Beginning with naked eye observation of the ancient astronomers, observation techniques have progressed dramatically with the invention of the optical telescope, radio telescope, and telescopes capable of "observing the cosmos in X-ray and gamma ray wavelengths. This book presents the exciting story of the unravelling of the cosmos, beginning with ancient ideas to the most recent findings made, using the latest technological tools. ABOUT THE AUTHOR : Winner of the 1994 NCSTC National Award for best science and technology coverage in the mass media, Biman Basu has been engaged in science popularisation through print and electronic media for more than threeand-a-half decades. An M.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Delhi, he taught Chemistry at Hans Raj College before joining the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research. He edited the popular science monthly, Science Reporter and has written more than 10 popular science books, of which three, The Story of Man (1997), Joy of Starwatching (1999), and Marching Ahead with Science (2001) have been published by NBT.     2- Binocular Astronomy   http://rapidshare.com/files/376713520/Binocular_Astronomy.pdf.html         Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 1846283086 | edition 2006 | PDF | 288 pages | 10,2 mb The advantages of using both eyes for astronomical observing are many and considerable, largely because of the way the human brain processes visual information. Binoculars – the usual kinds – are incredibly useful for wide-field observing, but "binocular astronomy" is much more than that, including binocular eyepieces that can be fitted to normal astronomical telescopes, and even giant binocular telescopes that are effectively two astronomical telescopes working in tandem.     3- Escaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and the Sixties   http://rapidshare.com/files/376713523/bonds_earth.rar.html           Praxis | 2009 | ISBN: 0387790934 | 464 pages | PDF | 16,2 MB   To commemorate the momentous 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering journey into space on 12th April 2011, a series of five books – to be published annually until 2011 – will explore this half century, decade by decade, to discover how humanity's knowledge of flying, working and living in space has changed.. The first volume of this series will focus upon the 1960s, exploring each mission from April 1961 to April 1971 in depth: from the pioneering Vostok flights to the establishment of the first Salyut space station and from Alan Shepard's modest sub-orbital 'hop' into space to his triumphant arrival at the Moon's Fra Mauro foothills almost a decade later. The Introduction sets the scene with early plans to explore space, balloon flights and such details as the development of pressure suits. Each of the Vostok missions is then covered in depth, together with unmanned precursor flights, subsequent plans and the development of Voskhod. Chapter 2 studies the Mercury missions together with unmanned and monkey flights, the development of the Redstone and Atlas boosters and the ill-fated Dyna-Soar, while the twin Voskhod missions, including the first three-man space crew, first spacewalk and plans for subsequent Voskhods to extend time in space are covered in the third chapter. Each of the Gemini missions are