Planets and Planetary Systems
By Stephen Eales.
Description
Planetary Science is an exciting, fast-moving, interdisciplinaryfield with courses taught in a wide range of departments, includingastronomy, physics, chemistry, earth sciences and biology.Planets and Planetary Systems is a well-written, conciseintroductory textbook on the science of planets within our own andother solar systems. Keeping mathematics to a minimum, assuming only a rudimentaryknowledge of calculus, the book begins with a description of thebasic properties of the planets in our solar systems, and thenmoves on to compare them with what is known about planets in othersolar system...
ISBN(s)
0470016930, 9780470016930
