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Chemistry plays a vital role in our understanding of life, the universe and t. The birth of science occurred in greece around 500 b. Astronomy is a natural science which is the study of celestial objects such as stars, galaxies, planets, moons, and nebulae, the physics, chemistry, and evolution of such objects, and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of earth, including supernovae explosions, gamma ray bursts, and cosmic microwave background radiation. Astronomy new, used and rare books and ephemera at biblio. Most of the books selected are suitable for a well educated layman with only a few being for a more serious reader. Jan 01, 2002 buy a collection of russian popular science texts. He edited the popular science monthly, science reporter and has written more than 10 popular science books, of which three, the story of man 1997, joy of starwatching 1999, and marching.
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