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Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy

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ISBN-10: 0521576008

ISBN-13: 9780521576000

Edition: 1998

Authors: Michael Hoskin

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This book covers the history of the study of the cosmos from prehistory through to a survey of modern astronomy and astrophysics, and includes stellar astronomy in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Book details

List price: $79.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/18/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 380
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

Preface
Astronomy before history
Astronomy in antiquity
Astronomy in China
Islamic astronomy
The Astrolabe
Medieval Latin astronomy
From geometry to physics: astronomy transformed
The refracting telescope in the seventeenth century
Newton and Newtonianism
The astronomy of the universe of stars
The message of starlight: the rise of astrophysics
Astronomy's widening horizons
Reference Guide
Chronology
Glossary
Further reading
Picture acknowledgments
Index