Aug 29, Linda rated it it was amazing. Best ever beginner's handbook to the night sky. Broken into short, easily digested segments by month, section of the sky, and deeper knowledge of the whys and wherefores.
Armed with this, a beginner can immediately go out and enjoy stargazing. Apr 28, Chris Mertes rated it really liked it.
This is a good concept, and a fun way for someone interested in astronomy to learn what to look for any night of the year. I've owned this book a couple of years now and have enjoyed referring to it often.
Mar 18, John added it. An excellent resource for me anyway. There are alternative uses for books such as these. Dec 28, Liz Parker rated it really liked it. Great book for light astronomy research and basic understanding. Apr 24, John rated it it was amazing. I love this book. It is excellent to read any night of the year to figure out what is going on in the night sky. If you need an introduction or just lovre the out doors get a copy of this book.
I have been enjoying this one quite a bit, although I generally fall asleep shortly after it gets dark. Jun 20, Jeff rated it it was amazing. This is the book that turned me on to Chet Raymo, and has given me over a decade of fascinating views into the universe. Billy rated it liked it Jul 25, Sara rated it liked it Oct 17, Deb rated it liked it Feb 26, Michael West rated it did not like it Sep 16, Cheryl rated it it was amazing Jun 27, Kurt rated it it was amazing Dec 03, Jonathan rated it it was amazing Jun 09, Jon rated it it was amazing Jul 14, Joan Hawkins rated it it was amazing Dec 01, Caroline rated it it was amazing Jun 25, Ron rated it it was amazing Jul 26, Robyn rated it really liked it Feb 05, Dan Raymo rated it really liked it Aug 03, Murdock Hendrix rated it it was amazing Sep 23, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one ». Readers also enjoyed. About Chet Raymo. Chet Raymo. Chet Raymo born September 17, in Chattanooga, Tennessee is a noted writer, educator and naturalist.
His weekly newspaper column Science Musings appeared in the Boston Globe for twenty years, and his musings can still be read online at www. His most famous book was the novel entitled The Do Chet Raymo born September 17, in Chattanooga, Tennessee is a noted writer, educator and naturalist. His most famous book was the novel entitled The Dork of Cork, and was made into the feature length film Frankie Starlight.
Raymo is also the author of Walking Zero, a scientific and historical account of his wanderings along the Prime Meridian in Great Britain.
Raymo was the recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for his Nonfiction work. Books by Chet Raymo. You've already accomplished the first and very important part of the Goodreads Reading Challenge—signing up! Just by joining, Read more Trivia About Starry Nights No trivia or quizzes yet. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Divided into concise, illustrated essays, it focuses on the aesthetic as well as the scientific aspects of stargazing.
It offers the most up-to-date information available, with hundreds of charts, drawings, and maps-that take you beyond the visible canopy of stars and constellations into the unseen realm of nebulae and galaxies.
This simple yet substantial text is full of critical information and helpful hints on how to observe the stars; describe their position; calculate their age, brightness, and distance; and much more.
Whether you observe the sky with a telescope or the naked eye, Starry Nights makes the infinite intimate and brings the heavens within your grasp. Keep this invaluable, informative guide close at hand, and you'll find that the sky is the limit nights a year January -- February -- March -- April -- May -- June -- July -- August -- September -- October -- November -- December.
The Virgin and the Mousetrap addresses our fears about science, and weighs the gifts of scientific knowledge against their costs. In his search for the soul of science—and for our own sense of place in the universe described by science—Raymo explores such topics as environmental responsibility, the use of animals in research, and technology in the service of national defense.
These essays draw upon literature, art, history, and philosophy to forge a reconciliation between scientific and humanistic concerns. If science is a mirror to creation, then it is also a mirror to ourselves. In The Virgin and the Mousetrap , Raymo looks into the mirror of science for life-affirming reflections of the human spirit. Frank Bois is 43 years old and 43 inches tall.
But his yearnings are as wide and deep as the night sky he contemplates from his rooftop in Cork, Ireland. Having lived until now in anonymity, he has just written a memoir that will become an overnight literary sensation. All of it will be part of the great adventure that awaits him in both the outside world and the universe within Years ago, noted science teacher and writer Chet Raymo embarked upon his own quest to reconcile the miracle stories he learned as a child with the science he learned as an adult.
Skeptics and True Believers is the culmination of that search—a passionate, ever-inquisitive statement that science and religion can mutually reinforce the way we experience the world. Acknowledging that the scientific and the spiritual communities are increasingly split, Raymo builds strong bridges between them.
He is also a humanistic thinker of the first rank and an inspiring optimist. I hope this book will help bring hum to the attention of the very wide readership he deserves. But how does it square with the Book of Genesis and traditional religious faith?
This is one question that Raymo takes up in this dazzling book on the current debate between science and religion. Raymo is a witty and clear-headed guide through the thickets of current science—from evolutionary biology to the miracles of DNA codes and theories of the Big Bang.
At the same time he is a sensitive interpreter of authentic relgious faith and its compatibility with the scientific search. This book offers you the chance to recapture a personal connection to the heavens, enlarging your concept and appreciation of the universe rather than feeling diminished by its scale. On one level, An Intimate Look at the Night Sky is a unique star guide: twenty-four beautiful star maps, created specifically for this book, cycle through the seasons and across the heavens, revealing what you can see with the naked eye throughout the year on a clear night in the northern hemisphere.
On another level, Chet Raymo challenges our imagination—to see what is unseeable in the universe, to perceive distance and size and shape that is inconceivable, to appreciate ever more fully our extraordinary place in the cosmos. His elegant essays on the heavens blend science and history, mythology and religion, making clear why he is one of the most insightful and passionate science writers of our time.
After reading An Intimate Look at the Night Sky , which is as visually appealing as it is intellectually stimulating, you will marvel as much at the wisdom of the ancients as at the advances of modern science. For nearly forty years, Chet Raymo has walked a one-mile path from his house in North Easton, Massachusetts, to the Stonehill College campus where he has taught physics and astronomy.
The woods, meadows, and stream he passes are as familiar to him as his own backyard, yet each day he finds something new. In The Path , Raymo chronicles the universe he has found by closely observing every detail of his route.
With each step, the landscape he traverses becomes richer and more multidimensional, opening door after door into astromnomy, geology, biology, history, and literaure. The light from the star Arcturus I see reflected in the brook beneath the bridge at night has been traveling across space for forty years before entering my eye. I have attended to all of these stories and tried to hear what the landscape has to say I have attended, too, to language.
How did the wood anemone and Sheep Pasture get their names? What does the queset of Queset Brook signify in the language of Native Americans? Scratch a name in a landscape, and history bubbles up like a spring.
The path also reveals the stories of nineteenth-century industrialists who transformed natural resources into power, and turn-of-the-century landscape architects, such as Frederick Law Olmsted, who championed an ideal of nature tamed by conscious intent.
Recognizing that his path is commonplace, and that we all have such routes in our lives, Raymo urges us to walk attentively, stopping often to watch and listen with care. His wisdom and insights inspire us to turn local paths—whether through cities, suburbs, or rural areas—into doorways to greater understanding of nature and history.
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