The book describes the major physical theories of comets in the past two millennia. It demonstrates the evolution of ideas ...
Lire la suiteAstronomy in Rome has always been there, but a little hidden: it was in the palaces, in the churches or, better, above the ...
Lire la suiteThis volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern ...
Lire la suiteThis book details the history of one of astronomy’s many spurious objects, the satellite of Venus. First spotted in 1645, ...
Lire la suiteStrasbourg Astronomical Observatory is quite an interesting place for historians: several changes of nationality between ...
Lire la suiteThis unique work celebrates the 60th birthday of Professor Woodruff Sullivan III (University of Washington, Seattle). The ...
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