Moon An illustrated history : from ancient myths to the colonies of tomorrow
Book - 2019
"Moon: An Illustrated History chronologically presents 100 milestones in the Moon's development and exploration. Starting 4.5 billion years ago when the Moon formed, this stunning volume moves from the hypotheses of the Moon's formation (4.5 billion years ago) to sixth-century BCE predictions of solar eclipses, from the twentieth-century Space Race between the US and the Soviet Union to private space companies and possible future lunar colonies. Find out about lunar calendar systems and cults in the Bible; how lunar brightness was used to estimate stellar distances; how advancing telescopes in the seventeenth century allowed us to eye the Moon more closely; how author Jules Verne inspired the Father of Astronautics; the origi...nals of the Saturn V Moon Rocket; the Apollo missions, and so much more."--Amazon
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New York :
Sterling Publishing Company Inc
[2019]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xi, 211 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-208) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781454931980
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- 4.5 Billion Years Ago Formation of the Moon
- 4.5 Billion Years Ago Moon-Earth Pulling Begins
- 4.3-3.7 Billion Years Ago The Moon and the Origin of Earth Life
- 4.3-3.9 Bullion Years Ago Impacts Carve into Lunar Crust
- 3.9-3.1 Billion Years Ago A Lunar Facelift
- 3.8-3.5 Billion Years Ago Peak of Lunar Volcanic Activity
- 3.2-1.1 Billion Years Ago Eratosthenian Period of Lunar Geological Time
- 1.1 Billion Years Ago Copernican Period of Lunar Geological Time Begins
- 450 Million Years Ago Impact Forms the Aristarchus Crater
- 440-1.5 Million Years Ago Lunar Assistance for Intelligent Land Life
- c. 8,000 BCE Mesolithic Lunar Calendar
- 23rd Century BCE Humanity's First Author
- 22nd Century BCE Moon Meets the Sun Over China
- 22nd-21st Centuries BCE Sumerian Lunar Calendars
- 18th-17th Centuries BCE Complex Lunar Calendar Systems
- c. 900-700 BCE Lunar Cults in the Bible
- 763 BCE Assyrian Eclipse
- 747-734 BCE Nabonassar Standardizes the Lunar Calendar
- c.7th Century BCE Earliest Mention of Selene
- 6th Century BCE Beginnings of Nom religious Astronomy
- 6th Century BCE Thales Stops a War
- 6th Century BCE Spherical Harmony
- 5th Century BCE Anaxagoras Stands Trial
- 5th Century BCE Greeks Understand Lunar Phases
- c.350 BCE Earth's Curved Shadow on the Moon
- c.350 BCE Heavenly Perfection Corrupted
- Early 3rd Century BCE Library of Alexandria
- 3rd Century BCE Aristarchus Measures Lunar Diameter and Distance
- 3rd Century BCE Quarter-Phase Moon and Heliocentrism
- 3rd Century BCE Eratosthenes Calculates Earth's Circumference
- 3rd Century BCE The Hand Reckoner
- 2nd Century BCE Applying Math to the Lunar Orbit
- c.100 BCE The Antikythera Mechanism
- 1st-2nd Century CE On the Pace in the Moon's Orb
- c.150 The Almagest
- 500-800 Eastern Astronomers Keep Looking Up
- 9th-11th Centuries Shukuk
- 11th Century Seeing the First Sliver of a New Moon
- 13th Century A New Model for Lunar Motion
- 14th Century Lunar Brightness to Estimate Stellar Distances
- 14th Century Adjusting Lunar-Distance Variation
- 1543 The Moon Orbits Alone
- 1570s Moon and Sun Orbit Earth
- 1581 A Dream of a Lunar Voyage
- 1609 Telescopic Study of the Moon Begins
- 17th Century Advancing Telescopes Eye the Moon More Closely
- Late 17th Century The Moon Inspires Isaac Newton
- 18th Century Improving Instruments Advance Lunar Astronomy
- Late 18th Century A Lunar Society in Birmingham
- 1824 Another Doctor Turns His Eyes to the Moon
- 1370s Verne Inspires the father of Astronautics
- 1873-1909 Scientists Consider Lunar Origins
- 1914-22 The Moon Proves General Relativity
- 1926 First Liquid-Fueled Rocket
- 1929 Woman in the Moon
- 1938 BIS Lunar Spaceship Design
- 1930-44 Origins of the Saturn V Moon Rocket
- 1945 Operation Overcast
- 1943-60 New Understanding of Craters
- 1957 Sputnik
- 1958 Explorer I
- 1958-59 A New Discovery and a New Agency
- 1959 First Pictures of the Moon's Far-side
- 1961 Humans Enter Space
- 1961 An American in Space
- 1962 Planning Lunar Missions
- 1962 The Moon Speech at Rice Stadium
- 1963 Human Computers
- 1963-64 Saturn Architecture Takes Shape
- 1964 Two's Company, Three's a Crowd
- 1964 Beginning's of Lunar Science
- 1964-65 Astrogeology
- 1965 Improving Space Capabilities
- 1965-66 Learning to Rendezvous and Dock
- 1966 Neutral Buoyancy
- 1966 Tragedies
- 1967 Apollo 1 Fire
- 1967 Reengineering Apollo
- 1967 Declaring Peace on the Moon
- 1968 Lunar Tortoises
- 1968 Reaching for the Moon
- 1968 Earthrise
- 1969 Dress Rehearsals
- 1969 One Giant Leap
- 1969 Beginnings of Lunar Field Science
- 1969 Making Moonquakes
- 1969 The Lunar Receiving Laboratory
- 1970 A Successful Failure
- 1971 Return to the Moon
- 1971 Extended Missions
- 1972 Descartes Highland
- 1972 Mission to Taurus-Littrow
- 1972 Apollo Biostack
- 1972-74 Cancelled Apollo Missions
- 1970s-80s Elucidating Lunar History
- 1980s-90s Studying Lunar Resources
- 1998 Lunar Prospector and Surface Ice
- 2003-13 New Generation of Moon Probes
- 2018 Preparing for New Missions
- 2019-44 Building a Lunar Infrastructure
- References
- Index
- Image Credits
- About the Author