Author: WILSON, COLIN
Title: Starseekers
Description: London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340258594) Hard Cover, 10 x 7.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with rubbing to upper and lower rear fore-edges and tiny nick to spine foot. 271pp. A wide-ranging study of astronomical discovery and the means to it. The three sections of the book are 'Ancient Cosmology' which includes Neolithic astronomy and early observations, the 'Era of Discovery' - Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Newton and Herschel and finally 'The Exploding Universe' which traces the acceleration of astronomical discovery since Einstein and Quantum Theory. Near Fine/Very Good.
Keywords: Cosmology, History, Astronomy Science / Engineering / Maths 0340258594
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Title: Starseekers
Description: London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340258594) Hard Cover, 10 x 7.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with rubbing to upper and lower rear fore-edges and tiny nick to spine foot. 271pp. A wide-ranging study of astronomical discovery and the means to it. The three sections of the book are 'Ancient Cosmology' which includes Neolithic astronomy and early observations, the 'Era of Discovery' - Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Newton and Herschel and finally 'The Exploding Universe' which traces the acceleration of astronomical discovery since Einstein and Quantum Theory. Near Fine/Very Good.
Keywords: Cosmology, History, Astronomy Science / Engineering / Maths 0340258594
Price: GBP 7.25 = appr. US$ 10.35 Seller: Godley Books
- Book number: 025320
- Book number: 025320
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