Status
Available
Call number
Call number
520.9 Chr
Collection
Publication
Simon & Schuster (1978), Edition: 1st, 448 pages
Description
An history of astronomy presentedlargely through biographies of its founders, from the early Greeks through Ptotemy to Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton, interwoven with the cultural history of western Europe, showing the background from which they emerged.
Pages
448