The Cambridge Atlas of Astronomy

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Summary: A must for anyone interested in Astronomy
Review: Beuatiful pictures, but rather scientific/technical book, per item articles. An amateur who has read Hawkins, Griffin, Davies etc (like me) can understand about 50 % of the written part. No atlas !

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Summary: Terrific astronomy reference!
Review: I bought this book after borrowing a copy from my Astrophysics prof for 6 months or so. The text is very useful, but this book really stands out because of the diagrams. Many physics texts describe astrophysical phenomena, but this book has beautiful pictures of those selfsame events. I used colour copies for my presentations, and they really got the point across. I have never found a better, more comprehensive book about astronomy. The physics are at about the mid-undergraduate level.

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Summary: Terrific astronomy reference!
Review: I bought this book after borrowing a copy from my Astrophysics prof for 6 months or so. The text is very useful, but this book really stands out because of the diagrams. Many physics texts describe astrophysical phenomena, but this book has beautiful pictures of those selfsame events. I used colour copies for my presentations, and they really got the point across. I have never found a better, more comprehensive book about astronomy. The physics are at about the mid-undergraduate level.

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Summary: Comprehensive but no atlas.
Review: Let me point out first up, this book is very large. Both in its size and the wealth of information therein. You need to be sitting at a desk or table to be able to comfortably read this book. That aside, the amount of information it contains is vast. Although a novice can pick up this book and benefit from a read, many will probably find the text too technical. This is a book I return to often and always learn something new. It contains hundreds of photographs and graphs to compliment the text. Don't be mislead into thinking this is an atlas, as it is not. It really is a comprehensive illustrated encyclopedia of astronomy. If your after an atlas head to "The Cambridge Atlas of the Stars by Wil Tirion" or "Sky Atlas 2000.0: Deluxe by Wil Tirion, Roger W. Sinnott" for the two best available. Recommended.

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Summary: Comprehensive but no atlas.
Review: Let me point out first up, this book is very large. Both in its size and the wealth of information therein. You need to be sitting at a desk or table to be able to comfortably read this book. That aside, the amount of information it contains is vast. Although a novice can pick up this book and benefit from a read, many will probably find the text too technical. This is a book I return to often and always learn something new. It contains hundreds of photographs and graphs to compliment the text. Don't be mislead into thinking this is an atlas, as it is not. It really is a comprehensive illustrated encyclopedia of astronomy. If your after an atlas head to "The Cambridge Atlas of the Stars by Wil Tirion" or "Sky Atlas 2000.0: Deluxe by Wil Tirion, Roger W. Sinnott" for the two best available. Recommended.

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Summary: A beautiful and absorbing look at the Universe.
Review: This book covers the entire range of the subject, from the Earth to the Universe and all in between. It is well illustrated with many supporting topic boxes containing more detailed explainations of the underlying physics and chemistry. The topics are well ordered and explained. My only complaint is it is a very large book making it difficult to curl up with, but if it were not big, the photographs would not be as stunning. I pick this book up often and spent many hours exploring the Universe with it

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Summary: Excellent detailed information book on astonomy
Review: Well, it's a little out of date now , but this is still an excellent book for information on astrononmy up to the time period and the historical beginns of thscience. There's lots of great pictures and iullstrations. It's very comprehensive. However, it's a little hard to sit down with and read at times because of it's very large size.