The Discovery of Our Galaxy

by Whitney, Charles A

First UK Edition

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Book desription: London: Angus & Robertson. Very Good++/Very Good. 1972. First UK Edition. Hardback. 0207954526 Profusely illustrated with many photographs and line drawings. xvpp + 308pp + viiipp. Includes Epilogue, Glossary, Bibliographical Notes, and Index. 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. A history that stretches from Thales of Miletus predicting eclipses in the 6th centry B.C. to today's scientists probing the cosmic significance of the mysterious "black holes" discovered in 1970. Finally, Professor Whitney, a distinguished Harvard astronomer, makes clear for the layman the fascinating problems astronomers wrestle with today: the mysterious nature of quasars; the unknown forces behind the cataclysmic explosions glimpsed in other galaxies; the elusive nature of "interstellar dust"; and the eternal question of how it all began. Blue cloth boards with gilt, slightly rubbed to corners and top/bottom of spine, plus a few feint foxing spots to rear paste down, otherwise boards and contents very clean. Dust-jacket has a small closed tear repaired with archival tape, and some foxing spots and minor creasing visible on the outside as well as the inside; jacket is in loose protective cover. A Very Good++ copy in a Very Good dust-jacket. .

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