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| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| 1 | Ancient Egyptian sky magic | 1 |
| 2 | The origin of the zodiac | 7 |
| 3 | The basic astronomy of Stonehenge | 13 |
| 4 | Some puzzles of Ptolemy's star catalog | 24 |
| 5 | Ptolemy and the maverick motion of Mercury | 31 |
| 6 | How astronomers finally captured Mercury | 36 |
| 7 | Islamic astronomy | 43 |
| 8 | The astronomy of Alfonso the Wise | 57 |
| 9 | From Aristarchus to Copernicus | 63 |
| 10 | The Great Copernicus Chase | 69 |
| 11 | The Tower of the Winds and the Gregorian calendar | 82 |
| 12 | Tycho Brahe and the Great Comet of 1577 | 89 |
| 13 | Galileo and the phases of Venus | 98 |
| 14 | The Galileo affair | 105 |
| 15 | Johannes Kepler and the Rudolphine Tables | 123 |
| 16 | An astrolabe from Lahore | 132 |
| 17 | Fake astrolabes | 139 |
| 18 | Newton, Halley, and the comet | 146 |
| 19 | Eighteenth-century eclipse paths | 152 |
| 20 | The 1784 autobiography of William Herschel | 160 |
| 21 | The Great Comet that never came | 165 |
| 22 | Unlocking the chemical secrets of the cosmos | 171 |
| 23 | The discovery of the satellites of Mars | 177 |
| 24 | The first photograph of a nebula | 184 |
| 25 | The Great Comet and the 'Carte' | 189 |
| 26 | James Lick and the founding of Lick Observatory | 195 |
| 27 | Atget's eclipse watchers | 208 |
| 28 | Faintness means farness | 213 |
| 29 | The mysterious nebulae, 1610-1924 | 225 |
| 30 | Harlow Shapley and the Cepheids | 238 |
| 31 | A search for Russell's original diagram | 246 |
| 32 | Dreyer and Tycho's world system | 251 |
| 33 | Robert Trumpler and the dustiness of space | 257 |
| 34 | The discovery of the Milky Way's spiral arms | 263 |
| 35 | The Great Comet of 1965 | 271 |
| 36 | Albert Einstein: a laboratory in the mind | 282 |
| Figure acknowledgements | 293 | |
| Index | 299 |
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Thomas Adams
reviewed The great Copernicus chase and other adventures in astronomical history on March 31, 2014
The great Copernicus chase and other adventures in astronomical history
A novel about the life of young Bohemian residents of Belgrade during the Balkan Wars. It is written in the manic depressive style often employed by Russian writers, of which I am not particularly a fan. It's well known that many people in the educated classes of Serbia did not like the wars and did their best to stay out of them. This seems to be the experience of the characters in this short, strange novel. The book gave me some sense of the psychology of this class vis a vis the government during wartime, for which I am grateful.
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