Status
Available
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Publication
Springer (1999), Edition: 1999, 248 pages
Description
Lively and easy to understand, Total Eclipses presents the myths and legends associated with solar and lunar eclipses through the ages, the mechanisms governing these events, their beauty, and the wealth of information gleaned from them by astronomers and astrophysicists. "Gives a wide variety of information on observing eclipses for the novice as well as on the value of eclipses to professionals...any reader can find information at an interesting and appropriate level and can be sure that he is being guided knowledgeably." -NATURE
Original language
English
ISBN
1852331607 / 9781852331603
Local notes
From the library of Jeff Barton