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This is a book about the mystery and the passion, the imagination, religion, and poetry, the philosophy, the intellectual flights—and, above all, the people—that have created the science of astronomy, from Thales of Miletus predicting eclipses in the sixth century B.C. to today’s scientists probing the cosmic significance of the mysterious “black holes” discovered in 1970. With authority and charm, the distinguished Harvard astronomer Charles A. Whitney here re-creates the lives and temperaments of the great astronomers and retraces the ingenious arguments, the feats of observation and deduction, and the leaps of intuition by which they have gradually unveiled a picture of the univ...
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Chiefly letters from W.P. Russell, of Charleston, S.C., consisting of business correspondence re real estate on Hasel Street in Charleston. Other correspondents include W.P. Russell, Jr., and John B. Cleveland.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
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