The History of Astronomy: A Very Short Introduction

The History of Astronomy: A Very Short Introduction

Very Short Introductions

An introduction to the history of Western astronomy from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the mid nineteenth century. Emphasis is given to such topics as the merging of Babylonian and Greek astronomy in later Antiquity, Kepler’s conversion of astronomy into a branch of dynamics, and the first explorations of the universe of stars.

PDZ; WNX; PDX; PG

520.9

Michael Hoskin (Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge) – Oxford University Press