Measuring the Universe: The Historical Quest to Quantify Space by Kitty Ferguson

Measuring the Universe: The Historical Quest to Quantify Space

Kitty Ferguson

320 pages first pub 1900 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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Suppose you and I still wondered whether all of the pinpoints of light in the night sky are the same distance from us. Suppose none of our contemporaries could tell us whether the Sun orbits the Earth, or vice versa, or even how large the Earth is...

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