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978-1-4020-8323-5
A History of Physical Theories of Comets, From Aristotle to Whipple

The book describes the major physical theories of comets in the past two millennia. It demonstrates the evolution of ideas ...

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978-88-470-0672-0
Il cielo sopra Roma : I luoghi dell’astronomia = The sky above Rome: The places of astronomy

Astronomy in Rome has always been there, but a little hidden: it was in the palaces, in the churches or, better, above the ...

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Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe : Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange

This volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern ...

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978-3-7643-8909-3
The Moon that Wasn’t : The Saga of Venus’ Spurious Satellite

This book details the history of one of astronomy’s many spurious objects, the satellite of Venus. First spotted in 1645, ...

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978-1-4020-3644-6
The Multinational History of Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory

Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory is quite an interesting place for historians: several changes of nationality between ...

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978-1-4020-3724-5
The New Astronomy: Opening the Electromagnetic Window and Expanding our View of Planet Earth

This unique work celebrates the 60th birthday of Professor Woodruff Sullivan III (University of Washington, Seattle). The ...

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