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I am writing about a scientific book called 'The Guide To The Galaxy' by Nigel Henbest and Heather Couper
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Critical Account of Scientific Reading I am writing about a scientific book called 'The Guide To The Galaxy' by Nigel Henbest and Heather Couper and published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge 1994. This book is about the galaxy in which our planet and our solar system lie. It contains information that goes beyond what most people or people with limited scientific knowledge know. The book talks about the efforts and the hard work by early scientists to discover more and more about our galaxy. It also talks about the most sophisticated techniques used nowadays to probe the galaxy. The first chapter investigates the discovery of our galaxy, illustrating the work by early thinkers and scientists. It starts with the origin of the name of our galaxy, Milky Way, which was named by the Romans. The chapter also talks about the conception of other civilisations about the 'Milky Way',...
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