ISBN: 9780521630603 - fire in the sky: comets and meteors, the decisive centuries, in british art and science (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. 21 x 26cm 368pp near fine hardback in dust jacket. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, English artists produced extraordinary comet and meteor images in large numbers and great variety. This outburst of artistic creativity parallels the achievements of science in England in the wake of the momentous discoveries of Newton, Halley, and the Herschels, whose work included substantial discovwreies about comets. Includes colour plus black and white reproductions. Near fine in near fine dustjacket.…