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Acknowledgments
Introduction
How This Book is Organized
Unit 1: Starting our Journey of Discovery
Unit 2: Lunar Phases – A Simple Scientific Model
Unit 3: Modeling Earth and Moon Together
Unit 4: Measuring Time in the Sky
Unit 5: Measuring and Mapping the Sky
Unit 6: Exploring Gravity
Unit 7: Proving the Heliocentric Model Correct
Unit 8: Understanding Big Numbers
Unit 9: Orbital Dynamics: Planets and Moons in Motion
Unit 10. War of the Worlds: How Impacts Build Planets
Unit 11. The Four Seasons: Two Competing Models.
Unit 12: Safely Observing the Sun
Unit 13. Solar and Lunar Eclipses
Glossary
Famous Names in Astronomy
Figures and Photo Credits
Unless otherwise noted, all photographs are the work of the author, all rights reserved, © Daniel E. Barth, 2018.
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