A Ghost Takes You to Dinner (eBook)

From the Cosmos to GPS

Ulisses Capozzoli (Autor)

Sergio Amadeu da Silveira (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
80 Seiten
Edições Sesc SP (Verlag)
978-85-9493-055-2 (ISBN)

Infos

In what way could using a GPS to circulate in city traffic be connected to cosmic stars lying a billion light-years away from planet Earth? The intriguing answer is that they are irrevocably bound by a relation that traverses centuries of scientific knowledge, quasars located billions of light-years away from the Milky Way and names like Galileo Galilei, Max Planck, Tycho Brahe, Newton, Kepler, Copernicus , Herschel and Albert Einstein. In an inventive and information-rich narrative, the journalist and Master and Doctor of Science Ulisses Capozzoli starts out from the commonplace use of satellite-based geolocation systems to illustrate how science reveals itself in much of our daily lives. The book is the first title of the Science in Everyday Life series, published exclusively in digital format.

Autor

Ulisses Capozzoli is a journalist specialized in science writing, with a master's degree and doctorate in Science from the University of São Paulo. He was editor of Scientific American Brasil for 12 years and twice presided over the Brazilian Association of Scientific Journalism (ABJC). He is the author of books like Antártida: a última terra (Antarctica: The ultimate land – Edusp, 5ª ed. 2012), No reino dos astrônomos cegos: uma história da radioastronomia (In the Realm of Blind Astronomers: A history of radio astronomy – Record, 2005) and A terceira margem do rio: as águas do Ribeirão das Antas e as histórias que elas contam (The Third Margin of the River: The waters of Ribeirão das Antas and the stories they tell – Ramalhete, 2016), besides supplementary educational material.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.7.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Coleção Ciência no Cotidiano
• Reihe/Serie: Coleção Ciência no Cotidiano
• Verlagsort: São Paulo
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Schlagworte: application of relativity theory • Apresentação Danilo Santos de Miranda • History of Science • influence of scientific theories in everyday • Kepler’s three laws • kinds of black holes • Newton’s three laws • photography of the expansion of the universe • Prefácio Ulisses Capozzoli • the concept of artificial intelligence • the cosmic zoo • the history of quasars
• ISBN-10: 85-9493-055-0 / 8594930550
• ISBN-13: 978-85-9493-055-2 / 9788594930552