Eric Chaisson
Author of Astronomy Today
About the Author
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Series
Works by Eric Chaisson
The Hubble Wars: Astrophysics Meets Astropolitics in the Two-Billion-Dollar Struggle over the Hubble Space Telescope (1994) 94 copies
Thirteenth Labor: Improving Science Education (World Futures General Evolution Studies) (1999) 5 copies
Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe Plus MasteringAstronomy with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (8th… (2016) 1 copy
Starry Night(TM) Pro Activities and Observation and Research Projects for Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the… (2009) 1 copy
Astronomy Today Plus MasteringAstronomy with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (9th Edition) (2017) 1 copy
NEBULOSE GASSOSE 1 copy
La relatività 1 copy
Associated Works
Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment (The Frontiers Collection) (2013) — Contributor — 13 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Chaisson, Eric
- Other names
- Chaisson, Eric J.
- Birthdate
- 1946-10-26
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
- Places of residence
- Concord, Massachusetts, USA
- Education
- University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Harvard University - Occupations
- astrophysicist
cosmologist
science educator - Organizations
- Harvard University
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Johns Hopkins University
Space Telescope Science Institute
Tufts University - Awards and honors
- Kistler Prize (2007)
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Reviews
Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (5th… by Eric Chaisson
This textbook is an adequate basic astronomy text that covers all of the bases and as might be expected and has many updates reflecting recent research in the field. There is a website available to the owners of this book that has really cool photography, demonstrations, animations, and illustrations - it really compliments the book.
A lightly quantitative, thermodynamics-oriented treatment of radiation, matter, life. Uses energy flow-rate density (ergs per second per gram) as a complexity measure for phenomena of all kinds and scales.
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Statistics
- Works
- 26
- Also by
- 3
- Members
- 1,031
- Popularity
- #24,978
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 6
- ISBNs
- 91
- Languages
- 3
