The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories by J.L. Heilbron

The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories

J.L. Heilbron

384 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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Between 1650 and 1750, four Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Built to fix an unquestionable date for Easter, they also housed instruments that threw light on the disputed geometry of the solar system, and so, withi...

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