Galileo's Planet : Observing Jupiter Before Photography, Hardcover by Hockey,...
Galileo's Planet : Observing Jupiter Before Photography, Hardcover by Hockey, Thomas A., ISBN 0750304480, ISBN-13 9780750304481, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK Tells the history of humankind's quest to understand Jupiter in the era before photography. Hockey (astronomy, U. of Northern Iowa) covers all the people involved in observing Jupiter since ancient times, their observations, and the results of their findings. He focuses on the period from the invention of the telescope onward, covering astronomers such as Cassini, William Herschel, Mayer, Lassell, Webb, Parsons, and Hirst. Includes several b&w photographs of the astronomers and drawings and diagrams of Jupiter that they made based on their observations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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