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1Sleep walkers

a history of man's changing vision of the universe

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“Sleep walkers” Metadata:

  • Title: Sleep walkers
  • Author:
  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: Median: 624
  • Publisher: ➤  Penguin Books Ltd - Hurchinson - Penguin Books - Penguin (Non-Classics) - Hutchinson - Arkana - Penguin Books by arrangement with Hutchinson of London - Grosset & Dunlap - Putnam Publishing Group, The - Pelican - Penguin by arrangement with Hutchinson - Macmillan - Penguin
  • Publish Date: ➤  
  • Publish Location: ➤  Toronto - New York, NY - London - New York, N.Y., USA - [s. l.] - Harmondsworth - New York - Harmondsworth, Middlesex - London, England

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"We can add to our knowledge, but we cannot subtract from it."

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  • First Year Published: 1959
  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
  • Is The Book Public: No
  • Access Status: Borrowable

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2God and the astronomers

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“God and the astronomers” Metadata:

  • Title: God and the astronomers
  • Author:
  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: Median: 149
  • Publisher: ➤  Warner Books Inc (Mm) - Norton - Warner Books
  • Publish Date:
  • Publish Location: New York

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"WHEN A SCIENTIST writes about God, his colleagues assume he is either over the hill or going bonkers."

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  • First Year Published: 1978
  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
  • Is The Book Public: No
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3On the Shoulders of Giants

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“On the Shoulders of Giants” Metadata:

  • Title: On the Shoulders of Giants
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  • Languages: ➤  English - Spanish; Castilian - español, castellano
  • Number of Pages: Median: 1200
  • Publisher: ➤  Running Press - Running Press Book Publishers - Critica (Grijalbo Mondadori) - Critica - Dunod - Editorial Crítica - Penguin Books Ltd - Crítica
  • Publish Date: ➤  
  • Publish Location: Philadelphia - Paris

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  • First Year Published: 2002
  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
  • Is The Book Public: No
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4The exact sciences in antiquity

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“The exact sciences in antiquity” Metadata:

  • Title: ➤  The exact sciences in antiquity
  • Author:
  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: Median: 240
  • Publisher: ➤  E. Munksgaard - Brown University Press - Princeton University Press - Dover Publications - Barnes & Noble
  • Publish Date: ➤  
  • Publish Location: ➤  Princeton, N.J - Providence, RI - Providence, R.I - Copenhagen - New York - Providence

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  • First Year Published: 1951
  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
  • Is The Book Public: No
  • Access Status: Borrowable

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5Seeing and Believing

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“Seeing and Believing” Metadata:

  • Title: Seeing and Believing
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: Median: 198
  • Publisher: ➤  Fourth Estate - Diane Pub Co - HarperCollins Publishers Limited - Tandem Library - Viking - Penguin - Penguin (Non-Classics)
  • Publish Date:
  • Publish Location: New York

“Seeing and Believing” Subjects and Themes:

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"Tube of lead, two disks of glass: The answer, when at last it arrived, appeared to be simplicity itself."

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  • First Year Published: 1998
  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
  • Is The Book Public: No
  • Access Status: Borrowable

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6God and the Astronomers

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“God and the Astronomers” Metadata:

  • Title: God and the Astronomers
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: Median: 160
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date:

“God and the Astronomers” Subjects and Themes:

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First Setence:

"WHEN A SCIENTIST writes about God, his colleagues assume he is either over the hill or going bonkers."

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  • First Year Published: 2000
  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
  • Is The Book Public: No
  • Access Status: Borrowable

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7Planetary astronomy from the Renaissance to the rise of astrophysics

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“Planetary astronomy from the Renaissance to the rise of astrophysics” Metadata:

  • Title: ➤  Planetary astronomy from the Renaissance to the rise of astrophysics
  • Authors:
  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: Median: 292
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publish Date:
  • Publish Location: ➤  Cambridge - New York - Cambridge [England] - Cambridge ; New York

“Planetary astronomy from the Renaissance to the rise of astrophysics” Subjects and Themes:

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First Setence:

"Evidence of the intimate acquaintance that Isaac Newton (1642-1727) had with Rene Descartes's Principia philosophiae (1644) is to be found in some of his earliest manuscripts."

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  • First Year Published: 1989
  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
  • Is The Book Public: No
  • Access Status: Borrowable

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8Groei van ons wereldbeeld

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“Groei van ons wereldbeeld” Metadata:

  • Title: Groei van ons wereldbeeld
  • Author:
  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: Median: 521
  • Publisher: ➤  G. Allen & Unwin - Dover Publications - Interscience Publishers - Barnes & Noble - Allen & Unwin - Dover
  • Publish Date:
  • Publish Location: New York - London

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  • First Year Published: 1961
  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
  • Is The Book Public: No
  • Access Status: Borrowable

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9Copernicus

Founder of Modern Astronomy (Great Minds of Science)

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“Copernicus” Metadata:

  • Title: Copernicus
  • Author:
  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: Median: 112
  • Publisher: ➤  Enslow Publishers - Enslow Pub Inc - Enslow Publishing, LLC
  • Publish Date: ➤  
  • Publish Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ

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  • First Year Published: 2002
  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
  • Is The Book Public: No
  • Access Status: Borrowable

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10The Arctic Sky

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“The Arctic Sky” Metadata:

  • Title: The Arctic Sky
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: Median: 312
  • Publisher: Royal Ontario Museum
  • Publish Date:

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  • First Year Published: 1998
  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
  • Is The Book Public: No
  • Access Status: Borrowable

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11Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution

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“Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution” Metadata:

  • Title: ➤  Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution
  • Author:
  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: Median: 229
  • Publisher: ➤  Dover Publications, Incorporated - Dover Publications
  • Publish Date:
  • Publish Location: New York

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  • First Year Published: 1990
  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
  • Is The Book Public: No
  • Access Status: Borrowable

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12Secrets of the universe

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“Secrets of the universe” Metadata:

  • Title: Secrets of the universe
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: Median: 341
  • Publisher: ➤  University of Chicago Press - The University of Chicago Press - Thames & Hudson, Limited - University Of Chicago Press - Thames & Hudson
  • Publish Date:
  • Publish Location: Chicago - London

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  • First Year Published: 2009
  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
  • Is The Book Public: No
  • Access Status: Borrowable

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13The Euler-Mayer correspondence (1751-1755)

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“The Euler-Mayer correspondence (1751-1755)” Metadata:

  • Title: ➤  The Euler-Mayer correspondence (1751-1755)
  • Author:
  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: Median: 118
  • Publisher: American Elsevier - Macmillan
  • Publish Date:
  • Publish Location: New York - [London]

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  • First Year Published: 1971
  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
  • Is The Book Public: No
  • Access Status: Borrowable

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14Transit of Venus

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“Transit of Venus” Metadata:

  • Title: Transit of Venus
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: Median: 224
  • Publisher: ➤  Orion Publishing Group, Limited - Carnegie - Weidenfeld & Nicolson - Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Limited
  • Publish Date:
  • Publish Location: Lancaster - London

“Transit of Venus” Subjects and Themes:

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First Setence:

"There was great consternation at the Royal Society."

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  • First Year Published: 2004
  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
  • Is The Book Public: No
  • Access Status: Borrowable

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15Early man and the cosmos

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“Early man and the cosmos” Metadata:

  • Title: Early man and the cosmos
  • Author:
  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: Median: 271
  • Publisher: ➤  Heinemann - Walker and Co. - University of Oklahoma Press
  • Publish Date:
  • Publish Location: London - New York

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  • First Year Published: 1983
  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
  • Is The Book Public: No
  • Access Status: Borrowable

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16The scientists behind space

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“The scientists behind space” Metadata:

  • Title: The scientists behind space
  • Author:
  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: Median: 48
  • Publisher: Raintree - Capstone
  • Publish Date:
  • Publish Location: London - Oxford - Chicago, Ill

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  • First Year Published: 2011
  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
  • Is The Book Public: No
  • Access Status: Borrowable

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17Recherches sur l'histoire de l'astronomie ancienne

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“Recherches sur l'histoire de l'astronomie ancienne” Metadata:

  • Title: ➤  Recherches sur l'histoire de l'astronomie ancienne
  • Author:
  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: Median: 370
  • Publisher: ➤  Creative Media Partners, LLC - Arno Press - Legare Street Press - University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations - Cambridge University Press
  • Publish Date:
  • Publish Location: New York

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  • First Year Published: 1976
  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
  • Is The Book Public: No
  • Access Status: Borrowable

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18Great Astronomers

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“Great Astronomers” Metadata:

  • Title: Great Astronomers
  • Author:
  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: Median: 36
  • Publisher: ➤  Independently Published - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform - www.ReadHowYouWant.com - Independently published - Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publish Date: ➤  

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  • First Year Published: 2006
  • Is Full Text Available: No
  • Is The Book Public: No
  • Access Status: No_ebook

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    19Astronomy through the ages

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    “Astronomy through the ages” Metadata:

    • Title: Astronomy through the ages
    • Author:
    • Language: English
    • Number of Pages: Median: 320
    • Publisher: ➤  Taylor & Francis - Taylor & Francis Group - Princeton University Press
    • Publish Date: ➤  
    • Publish Location: ➤  Princeton, N.J - London, UK - London

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    • First Year Published: 1997
    • Is Full Text Available: Yes
    • Is The Book Public: No
    • Access Status: Printdisabled

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      20Chasing Venus

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      “Chasing Venus” Metadata:

      • Title: Chasing Venus
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      • Languages: ➤  Spanish; Castilian - español, castellano - ger - English
      • Number of Pages: Median: 336
      • Publisher: ➤  Alfred A. Knopf - Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial - C. Bertelsmann Verlag - Penguin Random House - Goldencraft - Books on Tape - Windmill Books - Vintage - Penguin
      • Publish Date: ➤  
      • Publish Location: ➤  Toronto, Canada - New York, USA

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      • First Year Published: 1984
      • Is Full Text Available: Yes
      • Is The Book Public: No
      • Access Status: Printdisabled

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        21The glass universe

        how the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars

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        “The glass universe” Metadata:

        • Title: The glass universe
        • Author:
        • Language: English
        • Number of Pages: Median: 324
        • Publisher: Viking - Penguin Books
        • Publish Date:
        • Publish Location: New York, New York

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        Access and General Info:

        • First Year Published: 2016
        • Is Full Text Available: Yes
        • Is The Book Public: No
        • Access Status: Printdisabled

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          22Kepler's Witch

          An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother

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          “Kepler's Witch” Metadata:

          • Title: Kepler's Witch
          • Author:
          • Language: English
          • Number of Pages: Median: 416
          • Publisher: ➤  HarperCollins - HarperCollins Publishers - HarperSanFrancisco - HarperOne
          • Publish Date:
          • Publish Location: New York

          “Kepler's Witch” Subjects and Themes:

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          First Setence:

          "AFTER HAULING MY STACK OF LUGGAGE down the platform, I finally came across the last unclaimed seat on the night train from Stuttgart to Prague."

          Access and General Info:

          • First Year Published: 2004
          • Is Full Text Available: Yes
          • Is The Book Public: No
          • Access Status: Printdisabled

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            23Astronomy in India, 1784-1876

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            “Astronomy in India, 1784-1876” Metadata:

            • Title: Astronomy in India, 1784-1876
            • Author:
            • Language: English
            • Number of Pages: Median: 288
            • Publisher: ➤  Taylor & Francis Group - University of Pittsburgh Press
            • Publish Date:

            “Astronomy in India, 1784-1876” Subjects and Themes:

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            Access and General Info:

            • First Year Published: 2014
            • Is Full Text Available: No
            • Is The Book Public: No
            • Access Status: No_ebook

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            24The hunt for Vulcan

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            “The hunt for Vulcan” Metadata:

            • Title: The hunt for Vulcan
            • Author:
            • Language: English
            • Number of Pages: Median: 227
            • Publisher: Head of Zeus
            • Publish Date:

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            Access and General Info:

            • First Year Published: 2015
            • Is Full Text Available: Yes
            • Is The Book Public: No
            • Access Status: Printdisabled

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              25The Cambridge concise history of astronomy

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              “The Cambridge concise history of astronomy” Metadata:

              • Title: ➤  The Cambridge concise history of astronomy
              • Author:
              • Language: English
              • Number of Pages: Median: 362
              • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
              • Publish Date:
              • Publish Location: New York - Cambridge

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              Access and General Info:

              • First Year Published: 1999
              • Is Full Text Available: Yes
              • Is The Book Public: No
              • Access Status: Printdisabled

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                26Miss Leavitt's Stars

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                “Miss Leavitt's Stars” Metadata:

                • Title: Miss Leavitt's Stars
                • Author:
                • Language: English
                • Number of Pages: Median: 256
                • Publisher: ➤  W. W. Norton - W.W. Norton - W. W. Norton & Company
                • Publish Date:

                “Miss Leavitt's Stars” Subjects and Themes:

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                First Setence:

                "The village was hidden at the bottom of a deep chasm with sides so steep and slick that no one had ever climbed them."

                Access and General Info:

                • First Year Published: 2005
                • Is Full Text Available: Yes
                • Is The Book Public: No
                • Access Status: Printdisabled

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                  27The Neptune File

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                  “The Neptune File” Metadata:

                  • Title: The Neptune File
                  • Author:
                  • Language: English
                  • Number of Pages: Median: 240
                  • Publisher: ➤  Allen Lane, The Penguin Press - Walker & Company - Berkley Trade - Walker Books - Penguin - Walker
                  • Publish Date:
                  • Publish Location: London - New York

                  “The Neptune File” Subjects and Themes:

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                  First Setence:

                  "Sometime between ten and eleven o'clock on the night of Tuesday, March 13, 1781, William Herschel was looking at the stars through a homemade telescope from his garden in the English spa town of Bath."

                  Access and General Info:

                  • First Year Published: 2000
                  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
                  • Is The Book Public: No
                  • Access Status: Printdisabled

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                    28The cosmic web

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                    “The cosmic web” Metadata:

                    • Title: The cosmic web
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                    • Languages: ita - English
                    • Number of Pages: Median: 280
                    • Publisher: ➤  Bollati Boringhieri - Princeton University Press
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                    • First Year Published: 2016
                    • Is Full Text Available: Yes
                    • Is The Book Public: No
                    • Access Status: Printdisabled

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                      29A historical view of the Hindu astronomy

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                      “A historical view of the Hindu astronomy” Metadata:

                      • Title: ➤  A historical view of the Hindu astronomy
                      • Author:
                      • Language: English
                      • Number of Pages: Median: 343
                      • Publisher: ➤  University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations - Franklin Classics Trade Press - Franklin Classics - Creative Media Partners, LLC - Smith, Elder
                      • Publish Date: ➤  
                      • Publish Location: London

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                      • First Year Published: 1825
                      • Is Full Text Available: No
                      • Is The Book Public: No
                      • Access Status: No_ebook

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                        30Man discovers the galaxies

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                        “Man discovers the galaxies” Metadata:

                        • Title: Man discovers the galaxies
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                        • Language: English
                        • Number of Pages: Median: 228
                        • Publisher: ➤  McGraw-Hill Education - (Distributed by) Dawson - Columbia University Press - Science History Publications - McGraw-Hill
                        • Publish Date:
                        • Publish Location: ➤  Folkestone - New York, Science History Publications, 1976 - New York

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                        • First Year Published: 1976
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                          31Parallax

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                          • Language: English
                          • Number of Pages: Median: 336
                          • Publisher: ➤  Dover Publications, Incorporated - Owl Books - W. H. Freeman - Holt & Company, Henry
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                          "Meet the photon."

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                          • First Year Published: 2001
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                            32The Lord of Uraniborg

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                            • Title: The Lord of Uraniborg
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                            • Language: English
                            • Number of Pages: Median: 529
                            • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                            • Publish Date: ➤  
                            • Publish Location: ➤  Cambridge - Cambridge [England] - New York

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                            "AMONG the mass of detail that constitutes the personal, social, cultural, and intellectual background of Tycho Brahe's scientific achievement, the one indispensable fact is that he was born a Brahe, that is, born not merely into the Danish nobility but also into the small fraction of the noble class that had historically played significant roles in the administration, governance, and defense of the realm."

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                            • First Year Published: 1990
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                              33The history of astronomy

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                              • Title: The history of astronomy
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                              • Language: English
                              • Number of Pages: Median: 123
                              • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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                              • Publish Location: Oxford - New York

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                              • First Year Published: 2003
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                                34Visualising Skyscapes

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                                • Title: Visualising Skyscapes
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                                • Language: English
                                • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
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                                • First Year Published: 2019
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                                35Sky and Ocean Joined

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                                • Title: Sky and Ocean Joined
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                                • Language: English
                                • Number of Pages: Median: 623
                                • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                                • Publish Date:
                                • Publish Location: Cambridge, U.K - New York

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                                First Setence:

                                "If Greenwich Observatory had its Charles II, Paris Observatory its Louis XIV, and Pulkovo Observatory its Tsar Nicholas I, the American counterpart, in good Yankee tradition, began with nothing quite so regal."

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                                • First Year Published: 2002
                                • Is Full Text Available: Yes
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                                  36The astronomical revolution

                                  Copernicus, Kepler, Borelli. Translated by R.E.W. Maddison.

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                                  • Title: The astronomical revolution
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                                  • Language: English
                                  • Number of Pages: Median: 530
                                  • Publisher: ➤  Routledge - Hermann - Taylor & Francis Group - Herman - Cornell University Press
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                                  • Publish Location: ➤  Ithaca, New York - Paris - Paris, Hermann [1973]

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                                  • First Year Published: 1973
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                                    37The unmaking of the medieval Christian cosmos, 1500-1760

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                                    • Title: ➤  The unmaking of the medieval Christian cosmos, 1500-1760
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                                    • Language: English
                                    • Number of Pages: Median: 296
                                    • Publisher: ➤  Taylor & Francis Group - Ashgate
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                                    • Publish Location: ➤  Aldershot, Hants, England - Brookfield, Vt

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                                    • First Year Published: 1999
                                    • Is Full Text Available: Yes
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                                      38Astronomy Activity and Laboratory Manual

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                                      • Title: ➤  Astronomy Activity and Laboratory Manual
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                                      • Language: English
                                      • Number of Pages: Median: 128
                                      • Publisher: ➤  Jones & Bartlett Learning - Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC
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                                      • First Year Published: 2008
                                      • Is Full Text Available: No
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                                        39The Dawn of Astronomy

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                                        • Language: English
                                        • Number of Pages: Median: 448
                                        • Publisher: ➤  Dover Publications - The MIT Press - Cassell - Kessinger Publishing
                                        • Publish Date: ➤  
                                        • Publish Location: London

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                                        First Setence:

                                        "WHEN we inquire among which early peoples we are likely to find the first cultivation of astronomy, whatever the form it may have taken, we learn that it is generally agreed by archaeologists that the first civilisations which have so far been traced were those in the Nile Valley and in the adjacent countries in Western Asia."

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                                        • First Year Published: 1894
                                        • Is Full Text Available: No
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                                          40From Eudoxus to Einstein

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                                          • Title: From Eudoxus to Einstein
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                                          • Language: English
                                          • Number of Pages: Median: 528
                                          • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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                                          First Setence:

                                          "A great deal of human effort has been expended over the past 4000 years or so in trying to predict and explain the motions of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars."

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                                          • First Year Published: 2004
                                          • Is Full Text Available: No
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                                            41Measuring the universe

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                                            • Title: Measuring the universe
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                                            • Language: English
                                            • Number of Pages: Median: 203
                                            • Publisher: ➤  University of Chicago Press - University Of Chicago Press
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                                            • Publish Location: Chicago

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                                            First Setence:

                                            "The recent Pioneer and Voyager missions to Jupiter and Saturn have once again demonstrated in spectacular fashion what impact a new technology can have on the body of scientific knowledge."

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                                            • First Year Published: 1985
                                            • Is Full Text Available: Yes
                                            • Is The Book Public: No
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                                              42Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics

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                                              • Title: ➤  Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics
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                                              • Language: English
                                              • Number of Pages: Median: 287
                                              • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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                                              First Setence:

                                              "Agnes Mary Clerke, born on 10 February 1842 in Skibbereen, Co. Cork, was the second of three children of John William Clerke, manager of the Provincial Bank in that town,and his wife Catherine Mary nee Deasy (Figure 1.1)."

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                                              • First Year Published: 2002
                                              • Is Full Text Available: Yes
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                                                43Geons, black holes, and quantum foam

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                                                • Title: ➤  Geons, black holes, and quantum foam
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                                                • Language: English
                                                • Number of Pages: Median: 380
                                                • Publisher: Norton
                                                • Publish Date:
                                                • Publish Location: New York

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                                                • First Year Published: 1998
                                                • Is Full Text Available: Yes
                                                • Is The Book Public: No
                                                • Access Status: Printdisabled

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                                                  44Yerkes Observatory, 1892-1950

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                                                  • Title: Yerkes Observatory, 1892-1950
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                                                  • Language: English
                                                  • Number of Pages: Median: 389
                                                  • Publisher: ➤  University Of Chicago Press - University of Chicago Press
                                                  • Publish Date:
                                                  • Publish Location: Chicago

                                                  “Yerkes Observatory, 1892-1950” Subjects and Themes:

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                                                  First Setence:

                                                  "Yerkes Observatory began on October 7, 1892, a fine autumn day in Chicago."

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                                                  • First Year Published: 1997
                                                  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
                                                  • Is The Book Public: No
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                                                    45Where is our solar system?

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                                                    • Title: Where is our solar system?
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                                                    • Language: English
                                                    • Number of Pages: Median: 109
                                                    • Publisher: ➤  Penguin Young Readers Group - Turtleback - Penguin Workshop
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                                                    • First Year Published: 2018
                                                    • Is Full Text Available: No
                                                    • Is The Book Public: No
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                                                      46Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century

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                                                      • Title: ➤  Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
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                                                      • Language: English
                                                      • Number of Pages: Median: 485
                                                      • Publisher: ➤  Cambridge University Press - The Perfect Library - Creative Media Partners, LLC
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                                                      • First Year Published: 2010
                                                      • Is Full Text Available: No
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                                                      47History of western astrology

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                                                      • Title: History of western astrology
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                                                      • Language: English
                                                      • Number of Pages: Median: 392
                                                      • Publisher: ➤  Bloomsbury Academic - Continuum
                                                      • Publish Date:
                                                      • Publish Location: London - New York

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                                                      • First Year Published: 2009
                                                      • Is Full Text Available: No
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                                                      48The schemata of the stars

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                                                      • Title: The schemata of the stars
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                                                      • Language: English
                                                      • Number of Pages: Median: 213
                                                      • Publisher: ➤  World Scientific Publishing Company - World Scientific - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
                                                      • Publish Date:
                                                      • Publish Location: Singapore - River Edge, NJ

                                                      “The schemata of the stars” Subjects and Themes:

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                                                      First Setence:

                                                      "It is an event of great historical significance that Byzantium preserved the cultural traditions of the ancient world and transmitted them first to the Arab world and then to Western Europe."

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                                                      • First Year Published: 1998
                                                      • Is Full Text Available: No
                                                      • Is The Book Public: No
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                                                        49A history of astronomy

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                                                        • Title: A history of astronomy
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                                                        • Language: English
                                                        • Number of Pages: Median: 355
                                                        • Publisher: ➤  Methuen - E. P. Dutton - Methuen & co. - Creative Media Partners, LLC - Taylor & Francis Group - Franklin Classics Trade Press
                                                        • Publish Date: ➤  
                                                        • Publish Location: London - New York

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                                                        Access and General Info:

                                                        • First Year Published: 1907
                                                        • Is Full Text Available: Yes
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                                                        • Access Status: Public

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                                                          50A short history of astronomy

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                                                          • Title: A short history of astronomy
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                                                          • Language: English
                                                          • Number of Pages: Median: 440
                                                          • Publisher: ➤  J. Murray - John Murray - Dover Publications - Scribner
                                                          • Publish Date:
                                                          • Publish Location: London - New York

                                                          “A short history of astronomy” Subjects and Themes:

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                                                          Access and General Info:

                                                          • First Year Published: 1898
                                                          • Is Full Text Available: Yes
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                                                          • Access Status: Public

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