Watchers of the Stars
The Story of a Revolution

Sir Patrick Moore CBE DSc FRAS (Author)

9781904275442, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 30 September 2009

200 pages
23.3 x 15.6 x 1.4 cm, 0.34 kg

This is the 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.

The earth in space
The questioners
Copernicus – the doubter
The wandering scholar
De revolutionibus…
The master of heaven
Circles or ellipses? Galileo – the experimenter
Telescopes and the sky
The storm gathers
The Dialogue
Confrontation!
Truth will out
Index.

Subject Areas: Space science [TTD]