The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

An exciting voyage through the cosmos, telling the story of our ideas about space, time and the physics of the universe from ancient times to today. Part of DK's bestselling Big Ideas series, it uses flowcharts, bold graphics and jargon-free writing to explain concepts from the Copernican revolution to black holes and the Big Bang.

Key features

• Publisher: DK, hardcover, 352 pages
• ISBN: 9780241225936
• More than 100 big astronomical ideas, theories and discoveries
• Biographies of key astronomers including Ptolemy, Galileo, Newton, Hubble and Hawking
• Organised in clear chapters from early sky-watching to modern space technology
• Striking illustrations make hard-to-grasp ideas easy to understand