Works
Rawal is the author of many scientific and popular science works in the field of astronomy and related subjects, as follows:
- Solar System Parts I - IV (all in Gujarati)
- Total Solar Eclipse (English & Gujarati)
- Science in India after Independence (Gujarati).
- The Story of Birth of the Planetarium (Gujarati).
- The Wonderful Sky (Gujarati).
- Scientist of the millennium (English / Hindi)
He has written eight Science Fiction stories in Gujarati and Hindi, which appeared originally in Janmbhoomi-Pravasi, New Surat Times, Sambhav, Mumbai Samachar and Nav Bharat Times. They have been translated into English and Marathi, as well.
He also wrote the scripts of the following planetarium shows, shown at the Nehru Planetarium:
- Journey to the Red Planet
- Astronomy of the Millennium
- Einstein and the Universe
- Collision in Space
Dr. J.J. Rawal of the Nehru Planetarium, Bombay, recorded the distance of four satellites, each 35520 km, 57710 km, 96130 km and 71300 km, away from the centre of Neptune.
- Our place in the universe (for the Indian Planetary Society only)
Read more about this topic: Jitendra Jatashankar Rawal
Famous quotes containing the word works:
“I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.”
—Freya Stark (b. 1893–1993)
“The subterranean miner that works in us all, how can one tell whither leads his shaft by the ever shifting, muffled sound of his pick?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)