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Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins - SPRING 2011 | ||
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Secrets of the Universe: How We Discovered the Cosmos by Dr Paul Murdin Hardcover, 342 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-226-55143-1 / 0226551431 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-55143-2 / 9780226551432 Discoveries in astronomy challenge our fundamental ideas about the universe. Where the astronomers of antiquity once spoke of fixed stars, we now speak of whirling galaxies and giant supernovae. Where we once thought Earth was the center of the universe, we now see it as a small planet among million |