Astronomy History

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    • Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    • By: Brian Greene
    • Narrated by: Erik Davies
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-23-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,990 ratings
    • In a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as elegant as the theories it explains, Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surrounding string theory to reveal a universe that consists of 11 dimensions....

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    • And Other Cosmic Quandaries
    • By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,199 ratings
    • Neil deGrasse Tyson has a talent for explaining the mysteries of space with stunning clarity. This collection of his essays from Natural History magazine explores a myriad of cosmic topics....

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    • By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38,004 ratings
    • How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these questions than astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Michael Hoskin
    • Narrated by: Marc Vietor
    • Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • This is a fascinating introduction to the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the mid-19th century....

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    • The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
    • By: Seb Falk
    • Narrated by: Seb Falk
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk....

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    • By: Les Johnson
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • A Traveler's Guide to the Stars is your passport to the next great frontier of human discovery, providing a rare inside look at the remarkable breakthroughs in science and technology that will help tomorrow's space travelers chart a course for the stars....

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    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • By: Gene Kranz
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,154 ratings
    • Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....

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    • The Special and the General Theory
    • By: Albert Einstein
    • Narrated by: Julian Lopez-Morillas
    • Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • Albert Einstein described Relativity as a "popular explosion" of his famous theory....

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    • How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved
    • By: Marcia Bartusiak
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe....

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    • How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
    • By: Dava Sobel
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • Dava Sobel returns with the story of a group of women whose contributions to the burgeoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe....

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    • Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
    • By: Matthew Brzezinski
    • Narrated by: Charles Stransky
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,001 ratings
    • On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon....

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    • An Alien Enterprise: The Shocking Truth Behind the Greatest Cover-Up in Human History
    • By: Timothy Good
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 294 ratings
    • This fascinating new volume tells the story of contact between aliens and humans from all across the globe, dating back to 1932, including meetings with military personnel and American presidents such as Eisenhower and Kennedy....

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    • The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant
    • By: Graham Hancock
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 21 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 550 ratings
    • Part scholarship and part yarn, tying together some of the most intriguing tales of all time - from the Knights Templar and Prester John to Parsival and the Holy Grail - this book will appeal to anyone fascinated by the revelation of hidden truths and the discovery of secret mysteries....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: David C. Catling
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Astrobiology is an exciting new subject, and one, arguably, more interdisciplinary than any other. Astrobiologists seek to understand the origin and evolution of life on Earth in order to illuminate and guide the search for life on other planets....

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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Richard Matthews
    • Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27,916 ratings
    • Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science...

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    • Explanations That Transform the World
    • By: David Deutsch
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 20 hrs
    • Release date: 08-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,669 ratings
    • A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers....

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    • The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
    • By: Robert M. Hazen
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,080 ratings
    • In this radical new approach to Earth’s biography, Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind....

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    • Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
    • By: Allan J. McDonald, James R. Hansen - contributor
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 368 ratings
    • On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory....

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    • My Battle to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
    • By: Leonard Susskind
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,086 ratings
    • What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed that it did....

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