The Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium

by Jay M. Pasachoff, Alexei V. Filippenko, Alexei Filippenko

Pasachoff/Filippenko represent a team that brings together experience in writing, research, and teaching. This book provides a brief, interesting, up-to-date, and beautifully illustrated overview of astronomy. Pasachoff/Filippenko are each very experienced in teaching introductory astronomy and bring that experience to bear in this text.

Genres: Science, Astronomy, Nonfiction, Textbooks, Reference

480 pages, Paperback

First published July 12, 2000

Reviews

[Abdul-Hameed Shukri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Huge but simple

[Larry · Rating 4 out of 5]

An introductory astronomy book, the cosmos is extremely well edited with beautiful pictures artfully well placed in such a way that they flow well with the reading format. The same can be said with the additional information text boxes: in lots of non-fiction text books, the text boxes disrupt the general chapter so one has to skip back and forth-in this book, that rarely occurs. Most pages end with a period and the end of a paragraph, and rarely does a text box disrupt that. This book does give a general survey of all available pertinent introductory astronomy information at present.