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Some 400 years after the first known patent application for a telescope by Hans Lipperhey, The As...

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In this volume readers can rediscover A.S. Eddington's elegant proof of the virial theorem for st...

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) is a pivotal figure in the birth of modern science, the astronome...

Many scientists look at the universe and conclude we are here by chance. The astronomer and histo...

Part biography of a book and a man, part bibliographic and bibliophilic quest, Gingerich's The Bo...

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