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Theoretical astrophysicist Rocky Kolb presents a popular history of astronomy and scientific cosmology from Tycho Brahe to the second half of the 20th century. In a style touched with humor and honed through numerous lectures to audiences ranging from third graders to Ph.Ds, Kolb introduces the pantheon of cosmologists, while offering a wonderfully proportional rendering of science and biographical sketches. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Writing with lively enthusiasm and frequent leavenings of humor, theoretical astrophysicist Kolb presents a popular history of astronomy and scientific cosmology from Tycho Brahe to the second half of the 20th century. At a few points in the discussion of earlier historical periods, his interpretation might cause the eyebrows of professional historians of science to raise just a little. However, he conveys the gist of important developments well enough to give general readers an accurate impression of the progress of astronomy in the last 400 years, and he is on firmer ground when he gets to the late 20th century. Recommended for most public and academic libraries.?Jack W. Weigel, Univ. of Michigan Lib., Ann Arbor
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Theoretical astrophysicist Rocky Kolb presents a popular history of astronomy and scientific cosmology from Tycho Brahe to the second half of the 20th century. In a style touched with humor and honed through numerous lectures to audiences ranging from third graders to Ph.Ds, Kolb introduces the pantheon of cosmologists, while offering a wonderfully proportional rendering of science and biographical sketches. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Writing with lively enthusiasm and frequent leavenings of humor, theoretical astrophysicist Kolb presents a popular history of astronomy and scientific cosmology from Tycho Brahe to the second half of the 20th century. At a few points in the discussion of earlier historical periods, his interpretation might cause the eyebrows of professional historians of science to raise just a little. However, he conveys the gist of important developments well enough to give general readers an accurate impression of the progress of astronomy in the last 400 years, and he is on firmer ground when he gets to the late 20th century. Recommended for most public and academic libraries.?Jack W. Weigel, Univ. of Michigan Lib., Ann Arbor
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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