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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 13 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Helen Hayley. |
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Of all the natural sciences there is not one which offers such sublime objects to the attention of the inquirer as does the science of astronomy. From the earliest ages the study of the stars has exercised the same fascination as it possesses at the present day. Among the most primitive peoples, the movements of the sun, the moon, and the stars commanded attention from their supposed influence on human affairs. From the days of Hipparchus down to the present hour the science of astronomy has steadily grown. One great observer after another has appeared from time to time, to reveal some new phenomenon with regard to the celestial bodies or their movements, while from time to time one commanding intellect after another has arisen to explain the true import of the facts of observations. The history of astronomy thus becomes inseparable from the history of the great men to whose labours its development is due. In the ensuing chapters we have endeavoured to sketch the lives and the work of the great philosophers, by whose labours the science of astronomy has been created. (from the Introduction) |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Adams, John Couch, 1819-1892.
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Airy, George Biddell, 1801-1892.
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Bradley, James.
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Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601.
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Brinkley, John.
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Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.
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Flamsteed, John.
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Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
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Halley, Edmund.
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Hamilton, William Rowan, Sir, 1805-1865.
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Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), 1792-1871.
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Herschel, William, 1738-1822.
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Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630.
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Laplace.
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Le Verrier, Urban Jean Joseph.
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Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
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Ptolemy, active 2nd century.
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Astronomers.
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Hayley, Helen.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781669306078 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1669306070 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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MWT14472546 |
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