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Bringing the Universe into the Laboratory-Project CLEA: Contemporary Laboratory Exercises in Astronomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2018

Laurence A. Marschall
Laurence A. Marschall*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325

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Were we meeting a century ago to discuss the state of astronomy education, we might have noted that remarkable changes were taking place in our field. The discipline, then regarded as a branch of geometry or mechanics, concerned itself primarily with the determination of positions in the heavens and the mapping of places on the earth. But with the advent of spectroscopy and the construction of large telescopes, astronomy was beginning to probe the how and the why of the heavens as well as the where and when. It was, in short, transforming itself into astrophysics, the study of the physical nature of the universe.

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Section Two
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 162: New Trends in Astronomy Teaching , 1998 , pp. 79 - 87
Copyright
Copyright © 1996

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