University of Sussex
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Our Place in the Cosmos
Autumn 2007

Lecturer: J. Loveday, Pev2 5A5
Office hour: Tuesdays 1.30-2.30
J.Loveday@sussex.ac.uk

Reading List

Hester et al. 21st Century Astronomy (Norton 2002).: The main recommended text for this course
Freedman and Kaufmann Universe (Freeman 2001).: Similar to Hester et al.
Kuhm and Koupelis In Quest of the Universe (Jones and Bartlett 2001).: Similar to Hester et al.

The following suggestions for background reading were kindly provided by Kim Lasky.

Rebecca Elson A Responsibility to Awe (Manchester: Carcanet, 2001).: Rebecca Elson was an astronomer whose research included work on globular clusters, the history of stellar life, and dark matter. She started publishing poetry while working on the first Hubble data at Princeton.
Lavinia Greenlaw Night Photograph (London: Faber, 1993).: Lavinia Greenlaw is a poet whose fascination with science often inspires her work. This collection has poems on notions of space, Galileo's wife, and the nature of gravity.
Maurice Riordon and Jon Turney eds. A Quark for Mister Mark (London: Faber, 2000).: A general anthology of poems inspired by science from the 17th century to today.
Andrew Smith Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth (London: Bloomsbury, 2005).: Interviews with the nine surviving astronauts from the Apollo Moon Programme.
Dava Sobel The Planets (London: Fourth Estate, 2005).: A mix of science, history and biography looking at ways of understanding the solar system.
Gwyneth Lewis Zero Gravity (London: Bloodaxe, 1998).: A sequence of poems about Lewis' cousin, US astronaut Joe Tanner, helping to repair the Hubble space telescope. Shortlisted for the Forward Prize & made into a BBC documentary.