Book
The Cambridge illustrated history of astronomy
Record details
- ISBN: 0521411580 (hc)
- Physical Description: ix, 392 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.
- Publisher: Cambridge, [England] ; Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Bibliography: p. 380-382. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Astronomy before history / Clive Ruggles and Michael Hoskin -- Astronomy in antiquity / Michael Hoskin -- Astronomy in China / Christopher Cullen -- Islamic astronomy / Michael Hoskin and Owen Gingerich -- The astrolabe / Michael Hoskin -- Medieval Latin astronomy / Michael Hoskin and Owen Gingerich -- From geometry to physics : astronomy transformed / Michael Hoskin -- The refracting telescope in the seventeenth century / J.A. Bennett -- Newton and Newtonianism -- The astronomy of the universe of stars / Michael Hoskin -- The message of starlight : the rise of astrophysics / David Dewhirst and Michael Hoskin -- Astronomy's widening horizons / Michael Hoskin and Owen Gingerich. |
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| APLS | 520.9 CAM | 31291002296497 | STACKS | Available | - |
