This Wild Abyss: The Story of the Men Who Made Modern Astronomy by Gale E. Christianson
This Wild Abyss: The Story of the Men Who Made Modern Astronomy

Gale E. Christianson

This Wild Abyss: The Story of the Men Who Made Modern Astronomy

Gale E. Christianson

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An history of astronomy presentedlargely through biographies of its founders, from the early Greeks through Ptotemy to Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton, interwoven with the cultural history of western Europe, showing the backgr...

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