Peter Aughton Livres

Captain James Cook's voyage in the Endeavour which resulted in the mapping of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, was an epic voyage into the unknown. According to the British government - who wished to deceive the world as to its true purpose - it was merely a scientific expedition to observe the transit of the planet Venus across the face of the sun, a measurement which could help to establish the scale of the universe itself. Instead it turned out to be the one of the greatest voyages of discovery.

The illustrated history of astronomy - from Babylonian stargazers to revolutionary attempts to look upon the heart of the universe.

St Mary Redcliffe lies on the south bank of the river Avon. It was built outside the walls of the ancient city of Bristol, yet through the centuries it has played an important part in the city's history. And when we come to study the parish history we find not only local happenings but world shattering events. In the late 15th century, a parishioner called John Cabot sailed from Redcliffe to discover New Found Land across the Atlantic Ocean. Christopher Columbus notwithstanding, true Bristolians believe that America was named after Cabot's contemporary, Richard Ameryk. In the 17th century, when America first became colonised by the English, William Penn of St Mary Redcliffe had the state of Pennsylvania named after him. It is not just the celebrated and artistic, but also the ordinary people of the parish who are celebrated in this book. Peter Aughton's lively text does justice to a rich parish history spanning many centuries,

A year and a day after James Cook arrived back on English soil having claimed Australia and New Zealand for the British crown, he set sail again on a three-year journey (1772-1775) that still remains the greatest exploratory voyage ever undertaken in the far Southern waters of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. ship since has ventured further south through the ice. This is a colourful and exciting story of the crew and their life aboard the Resolution and the adventures that occurred whenever they landed on exotic islands and coasts such as Tahiti, Easter Island, the Tonga Islands and above all the snow, fog, treacherous ice and blizzards of Antarctica.

Cook was the greatest explorer of his age and his voyages of discovery are the stuff of legend. During two long journeys, he circumnavigated the globe twice, charted the east coast of Australia, the whole of New Zealand and many islands in the Pacific. The Fatal Voyage is the story of Cook's final journey when he led his most dangerous and fabled expedition to search for the elusive Pacific entrance to the North West Passage. He set sail from England in July 1776 and along the way discovered the Hawaiian archipelago before mapping and charting the formidable north west coast of America, from Vancouver Island to the frozen northern coastline of Alaska. He sailed through the Bering Straits and although his ships reached the entrance to the North West Passage they were defeated by a sheer wall of ice blocking their way. Cook returned to Hawaii to rest, but a series of misjudgments between his men and the islanders sparked a violent clash in which Cook was killed at Kealakekua Bay. Peter Aughton has here used letters, log records and the diaries of those involved in the voyage to tell an enthralling account of James Cook's last days at sea and reveal the extraordinary legacy he left behind.

Das illustrierte Sachbuch "Die Geschichte der Astronomie" erzählt von den Bemühungen der Menschheit, dem Geheimnis der Sterne auf die Spur zu kommen. Von den babylonischen Sternguckern bis zur Revolution von Kopernikus, von Galileo Galilei bis zu Stephen Hawkings Theorien zum Urknall. Das Buch stellt die großen Durchbrüche in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte vor, erklärt aber auch, warum unsere Stunde 60 Minuten hat, wie die Römer das Schaltjahr erfanden oder wann der Mensch feststellte, dass die Erde keine Scheibe ist...+++ Der Ursprung der Astronomie +++ Von Babylon bis ins antike Griechenland +++ Kopernikus +++ Tycho Brahe und Johannes Kepler +++ Galileo Galilei +++ Newton +++ Einstein +++ Das Hubble-Teleskop +++ Schwarze Löcher und Quarks +++ Stephen Hawking +++ u.v.m. Autor Peter Aughton ist Dozent an der University of the West of England und Autor verschiedener Bücher über Captain Cook - 2009 ist das von der UN unterstützte internationale Jahr der Astronomie - Von der Antike bis zu Kopernikus, von Galileo bis zu Hawking - eine fantastische Reise durch die Geschichte der Astronomie - Rund 150 Fotos und Illustrationen, die die Geschichte der Astronomie

Touha člověka po poznání je nekonečná. S každým nově získaným poznatkem či dosaženým objevem nedochází tato touha naplnění, ale naopak roste. Člověk vždy rád čelil výzvám a ukládal si stále nové a těžší úkoly. Čím větší bylo nebezpečí, spojené se splněním daného úkolu, tím lépe. V současné době je touto výzvou hluboký vesmír, kdysi ji byla rozlehlá moře a oceány. Zpočátku se lidé plavili pouze v blízkosti pobřeží a na krátké vzdálenosti, postupně však, jak rostla jejich odvaha i úroveň plavidel, se odvažovali i dále od pobřeží a plavili se, v touze po poznání, do stále větších vzdáleností. Po probádání všech moří a oceánů člověk stále nebyl spokojen a v současnosti obrací svou pozornost do mořských hloubek.