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Published in 1923, this work surveys the world's oldest astronomical society, with chapters contributed by leading contemporary astronomers.
Masterpiece of historical insight and scientific accuracy and the definitive work on Greek astronomy and the Copernican Revolution. Includes surveys of European and Islamic cosmologies of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
This essential amateur astronomer's reference is an updated and expanded edition of J. L. E. Dreyer's famous New General Catalogue, providing visual data and notes for 13,226 deep-sky objects.
Originally published in 1906, this book presents a study of 'the history of man's conception of the Universe from the earliest historical ages to the completion of the Copernican system by Kepler in the seventeenth century'. Detailed notes and illustrative figures are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in planetary systems and the history of astronomy.
Sir William Herschel's many ground-breaking astronomical papers were scattered over 40 volumes of The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and elsewhere until 1912, when they were collected by John Louis Emil Dreyer and published as is reprinted by Thoemmes Press here.