The book describes the major physical theories of comets in the past two millennia. It demonstrates the evolution of ideas ...
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Continue readingThis book details the history of one of astronomy’s many spurious objects, the satellite of Venus. First spotted in 1645, ...
Continue readingStrasbourg Astronomical Observatory is quite an interesting place for historians: several changes of nationality between ...
Continue readingThis unique work celebrates the 60th birthday of Professor Woodruff Sullivan III (University of Washington, Seattle). The ...
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