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The Norton history of astronomy and cosmology / [John North]
- Title
- The Norton history of astronomy and cosmology / [John North]
- Author
- North, John David.
- Publication
- New York : Norton, 1994, c1995.
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- Additional Authors
- Porter, Roy, 1946-
- Description
- xxvii, 697 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Traces the history of astronomy and the universe.
- Series Statement
- Norton history of science
- Uniform Title
- Fontana history of astronomy and cosmology
- Norton history of science.
- Alternative Title
- Fontana history of astronomy and cosmology
- Astronomy and cosmology
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Originally published in England under the title The Fontana history of astronomy and cosmology.
- Statement of responsibility from jacket.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prehistory -- Ancient Egypt -- Mesopotamia -- The Greek and Roman world -- China and Japan -- Pre-Columbian America -- Indian and Persian astronomy -- Eastern Islam -- Western Islam and Christian Spain -- Medieval and Early Renaissance Europe -- Copernicus' planetary theory -- The new empiricism -- The rise of physical astronomy -- New astronomical problems -- The rise of astrophysics -- Cosmogony, evolution and the sun -- The renewal of cosmology -- Radio astronomy -- Observatories in space -- Macrocosm and microcosm.
- ISBN
- 0393036561
- 0393311937 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 31854784
- SCSB-10429927
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library