Watchers of the Stars

by Moore, CBE, DSc, FRAS

• ISBN13: 9781904275367
• ISBN10: 1904275362
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-30
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of Galileo's historic first recorded astronomical observations and to coincide with the United Nations International Year of Astronomy 2009, Horwood Publishing is delighted to announce the publication of this third edition by Sir Patrick Moore, one of the great presenters of astronomy in our time. It tells the epic story of the historical development of astronomy which caused a revolutionary change in human outlook, in its impact upon both scientific thinking and religious belief. It is a fascinating story, well researched and told in a scholarly yet exciting narrative that will be read with enjoyment and profit astronomers, historians and the general public. Formerly titled The Great Astronomical Revolution, the book includes a new foreword, new illustrations and colour plates, due Autumn 2009.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vi
The Earth in Space	p. 1
The Questioners	p. 14
Copernicus, the Doubter	p. 26
The Wandering Scholar	p. 35
'DeRevolutionibus…'	p. 49
The Master of Hven	p. 60
Circles or Ellipses?	p. 76
Galileo: the Experimenter	p. 96
Telescopes and the Sky	p. 106
The Storm Gathers	p. 125
The Dialogue	p. 137
Confrontation!	p. 150
Truth Will Out	p. 162
Epilogue	p. 178
Chronology of the Scientific Revolution	p. 180
Index	p. 182
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