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材料类型: | 互联网资源 |
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文档类型 | 图书, 互联网资源 |
所有的著者/提供者: |
Mark R Kidger |
ISBN: | 0691058237 9780691058238 |
OCLC号码: | 41273124 |
奖励: | Runner-up for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2000 |
描述: | xi 306 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
内容: | Matthew's star -- A star over Bethlehem? -- The first Christmas -- Halley's comet and other red herrings -- Shooting stars and fiery rains -- Supernova Bethlehem? -- We three kings? -- Triple conjunctions: a key to unlocking the mystery? -- Is the answer written in Chinese? -- What was the Star of Bethlehem? -- Epilogue. Which star is the star? -- Appendix. The heavens above Bethlehem. |
责任: | Mark Kidger. |
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An easily accessible style permits readers with minimal scientific training to share in the excitement of Kidger's rare feat of scholarly sleuthing... Kidger will not only convince all doubters, but his book will reset the terms for future attempts to put the scriptural Star in scientific context. Booklist Plenty of new and old data about the night sky and more than a little ancient history inform Kidger's clear account of his own and other's theories about the portent that led the Magi to Judea. Publisher's Weekly Stunningly, incredibly wonderfully an astronomer is now claiming that the age old story we were told as children may be based on the truth... I am inclined to agree with him. [This is] the most compelling solution yet to the mystery. -- Robert Matthew The Express 再读一些...