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Understanding the Heavens: Thirty Centuries of Astronomical Ideas from Ancient Thinking to Modern Cosmology Jean Claude Pecker 2001 edition
Understanding the Heavens: Thirty Centuries of Astronomical Ideas from Ancient Thinking to Modern Cosmology
Jean Claude Pecker
This study describes the evolution of ideas relating to astronomy, touching only lightly on most of the instrumental developments. It begins with the ideas of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian philosophers and concludes with modern theories of cosmology.
612 pages, biography
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 24, 2001 |
| ISBN13 | 9783540631989 |
| Publishers | Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg Gm |
| Pages | 612 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 234 × 33 mm · 1.14 kg |
| Language | English French |
| Contributor | S. Kaufman |
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