Indulge in this collection of the best astronomy books from the past 800 years. The Astronomers' Library is a rich history of astronomy (and astrology) publishing across Europe.
This is a carefully selected arrangement of publications from all over the continent – Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and the UK. And of course, as the original world leader in astrology, the middle east is featured, with multiple books from Persia.
Humankind has looked to the heavens since the dawn of time, wondering what is out there, as well as how everything works and (originally) who was responsible for it. Every tribe, race and civilization has wondered about our place in the universe and what lies beyond and what lies within it, below our feet.
Lately, attention has turned to the origins of the universe. From the turn of the millennium, knowledge and ideas were recorded, first on tablets or rock, then in the form of simple manuscripts, and eventually in a much more elaborate fashion as illustrative and engraving skills evolved.
The advent of printed books saw the production of highly illustrated tomes that showed off the skills of the printers as well as the newfound knowledge of the scholars and artists that wrote them.
Many of these works pushed the boundaries of illustrated publishing (and continue to do so to this day). They commanded expert illustrators and skilled engravers and hence didn’t come cheaply. They were treasured in the libraries of the wealthy and their intrinsic worth has meant that there is an incredible wealth of beautifully preserved historic examples from the 14th century onwards.
The significant difference we acknowledge today between astronomy and astrology has a relatively recent past, and the stars have long been associated with creatures, gods, characters and all sorts of divine beings. The study of such has a long, fascinating history that is shown in beautiful detail in the pages of these many beautiful books, and the transition from seeing the stars as characters to understanding them as spinning, celestial beings and part of our huge universe is akin to witnessing the history of the world.
As far back as the tenth century, Persian scholars such as Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi was recording his findings, observations and speculations on the wider universe, in his Book of Fixed Stars. The focus turned to Europe in the Middle Ages, with Germany, Holland and England the centres of study and publication. Following the “Copernican Revolution”, observation and study underwent a radical change, paving the way for astronomers such as Kepler, Galilei and Newton to shed further light on the nature of the planets and stars of our known systems, and the ground beneath our feet. Each of those famous names contribute to the illustrated books that are featured within.
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What if molecular manufacturing and its products replace modern technology? If they don’t then the question merely invites an entertaining and mind stretching exercise. But if they do then working out good answers in advance may tip the balance in making decisions that determine the fate of the world. Technology is a product of industry manufacturing and chemical engineering. Industry takes things from nature – ore from mountains trees from forests and coerces them into forms that someone considers useful. Trees become lumber then houses. Mountains become rubble then molten iron then steel then cars. Sand becomes a purified gas then silicon then chips and so it goes. Each process is crude based on cutting stirring baking spraying etching grinding and the like. However to make wood and leaves Nanotechnology does none of these. By studying the molecular structure it simply uses molecular machines powered by Solar energy that convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and molecular building blocks. These blocks then join to form roots trunks branches twigs solar collectors and more machinery. Every tree makes leaves and each leaf is more sophisticated than a spacecraft more finely patterned than the latest chip from Silicon Valley. They do all this without noise heat toxic fumes or human labor and they consume pollutants as they go. Viewed this way the trees are a form of highly advanced technology. This book sheds light on the various processes and uses of Nanotechnology.
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Purification of product gas is very important for all applications with the exception of direct combustion after the gasifiers. In the case of direct combustion product gas purification must compete with combustion exhaust gas purification. Gases are purified for the purpose of further using the gases them selves or the impurities contained in them; industrial gases discharged into the atmosphere are purified to prevent pollution of the air by noxious substances.
The problem of purification of industrial gases arose precisely because of rapid industrial development the concentration of industries and increased scales of production. In industrially developed countries the saturation of areas with industries and transportation was such that local pollution of the atmosphere became universal and led to the pollution of the entire air basin or at least a huge part of it.
Although various gas impurities such as H2S CO2 SO2 NO can be separated using these unit operations the removal of carbon dioxide from the mixtures of gases is an important industrial process in several contexts and will be discussed in detail in the present work.
The purpose of this book is to make available to engineers plant managers students and technical men in general a description under one cover of the several purification and other processes that are applied to gas.
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