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From the ancient origins of astronomy to the Copernican revolution, and from Galileo to Hawking's research into black holes, The Story of Astronomy charts the discoveries of some of the greatest minds in human history, and their attempts to unveil the secrets of the stars. Peter Aughton's trademark narrative style is to the fore, demystifying some of the biggest breakthroughs in the history of science, and packed full of fascinating nuggets such as why we have 60 minutes in an hour, how the Romans bodged the invention of the leap year and when people really discovered the Earth wasn't flat (a thousand years before Columbus). And explaining in the most straightforward and compelling of ways what Newton, Einstein, Hubble and Hawking really achieved. Richly informative and readable, Star Sight is a fascinating journey through 3000 years of stargazing. Included are chapters on: The Origins of Astronomy Finding Longitude From Babylon to Ancient Greece Einstein The Almagest Hubble's Universe Persian Stargazing The Microcosm and the Macrocosm Nicholas Copernicus Beyond the Visible Spectrum Tycho and Kepler Black Holes and Quasars Galileo Stephen Hawking Newton and The Clockwork Universe The Moment of Creation William Herschel The Future
Peter Aughton is the author of the hugely popular history titles Endeavour: The Story of Captain Cook's First Great Epic Voyage, Resolution, Newton's Apple, The Transit of Venus and Voyages that Changed the World (Quercus). Formerly a computer engineer in the aerospace industry, where he worked on the world's first supersonic airliner, he went on to lecture at the University of the West of England for 25 years.
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Original publisher's black paper-covered boards, silver title spine, pictorial dustjacket, large 4to: frontispiece, 222pp., [ij], very richly illustrated, boxes, time tables, glossary, index, general bibliography, credits illustrations. Very fine copy - as new. Thorough history of great minds such as COPERNICUS, GALILEO and STEPHEN HAWKING, and their attempts to unravel the secrets of the cosmos. Artikel-Nr. 155495
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