Astronomy through the Ages : : The Story of the Human Attempt to Understand the Universe / / Robert Wilson.
When astronomers today look up at the night sky they picture a spectacular and infinite universe--full of pulsars, quasars, and black holes and ruled by arcane laws of space and time. Once, ancient astronomers looked up and saw only points of light tracing calm movements across the heavens. But they...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©1998 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (302 p.) :; 16 halftones 16 color plates |
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