title: The Solar System and Back
author: Isaac Asimov
description: Book is used and has been withdrawn from service from a Library. Book has a Library Binding and the usual Library Stamps, Stickers, Card Holder, Library Markings. May or May Not have a Dust Jacket.
zlib_text: Asimov’s
  New	Guide	to	Science
  ISAAC	ASIMOV
  
  TO
  Janet	Jeppson	Asimov
  who	shares	my	interest	in	science
  and	in	every	other	aspect	of	my	life
  
  Contents
  Preface
  Chapter	1
  What	is	Science?
  THE	DESIRE	TO	KNOW
  THE	GREEKS
  GEOMETRY	AND	MATHEMATICS
  THE	DEDUCTIVE	PROCESS
  THE	RENAISSANCE	AND	COPERNICUS
  EXPERIMENTATION	AND	INDUCTION
  MODERN	SCIENCE
  PART	I
  The	Physical	Sciences
  Chapter	2
  The	Universe
  The	Size	of	the	Universe
  MEASURING	THE	SOLAR	SYSTEM
  THE	FARTHER	STARS
  MEASURING	A	STAR’S	BRIGHTNESS
  DETERMINING	THE	GALAXY’S	SIZE
  ENLARGING	THE	UNIVERSE
  SPIRAL	GALAXIES
  CLUSTERS	OF	GALAXIES
  Tbe	Birth	of	the	Universe
  THE	AGE	OF	THE	EARTH
  THE	SUN	AND	THE	SOLAR	SYSTEM
  THE	BIG	BANG
  The	Death	of	the	Sun
  NOVAE	AND	SUPERNOVAE
  EVOLUTION	OF	THE	STARS
  The	Windows	to	the	Universe
  
  THE	TELESCOPE
  THE	SPECTROSCOPE
  PHOTOGRAPHY
  RADIO	ASTRONOMY
  LOOKING	BEYOND	OUR	GALAXY
  The	New	Objects
  QUASARS
  NEUTRON	STARS
  BLACK	HOLES
  “EMPTY”	SPACE
  Chapter	3
  The	Solar	System
  Birth	of	the	Solar	System
  The	Sun
  The	Moon
  MEASURING	THE	MOON
  