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Cosmic Journey: A History of Scientific Cosmology
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N. Hetherington and P. McCray; Publisher: American Institute of Physics
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This web exhibit explores the history of cosmology, from the work of the early Greeks to modern questions of dark matter and dark energy. Both the theories and ideas about the origin…
https://www.aip.org/history/exhibits/cosmology/index.htm
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About Foucault Pendulums
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Z. Beynon and California Academy of Sciences
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This introductory website provides a step-by-step explanation of how a pendulum works and how the rotation of Earth causes the effects observed in a Foucault pendulum. A history of…
http://www.academypendulums.com/pendulum/
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NASA: Living in Space
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Try this site to learn about daily life in apparent weightlessness on a space station. It provides answers to all sorts of questions--about space food, space clothing, eathing and…
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/living/index.html
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The Round Earth and Christopher Columbus
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D. Stern
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This interesting site describes the early evidence for a round Earth and also Eratosthenes remarkable measurement of Earth's circumference. You'll see that Columbus was not the first…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Scolumb.htm
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From Stargazers to Starships: Spaceflight
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D. Stern
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Visit this site to learn about rockets and spaceflight. If you're willing to do some reading, you can find out about the history of rocketry and the space race, uses of unmanned…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Spaceflt1.htm
