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Acknowledgements; Introduction;
1. Family background in County Cork;
2. Ireland and Italy;
3. London, the literary scene;
4. The History of Astronomy;
5. A circle of astronomers;
6. A visit to South Africa;
7. The System of the Stars;
8. Social life in scientific circles;
9. Homer, the Herschels and a revised History;
10. The opinion moulder;
11. Popularisation, cryogenics and evolution;
12. Problems in Astrophysics;
13. Women in astronomy in Britain in Agnes Clerke's time;
14. Revised System of the Stars;
15. Cosmogonies, cosmology and Nature's spiritual clues;
16. Last days and retrospect;
17. Epilogue; Notes; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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Jhony Pierre
reviewed Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics on June 01, 2014
Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics
I'd forgotten how good this biography of the astronomer, anglophile, snob, cat-lover, and his psuedo-literary wife, was until I reread this book. Hubble is the astronomer most associated with the discovery, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, that the universe is expanding. His main work was done at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, near Pasadena. I like Hubble the scientist more, his relationship with his mother & siblings, whom he dropped almost all contact with once he became established in science, less
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