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Book Title
History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia
Publication Date
1996-10-01
Pages
614
ISBN
9780815303220
Subject Area
Science, History
Publication Name
History of Astronomy : an Encyclopedia
Publisher
Routledge
Item Length
10.2 in
Subject
General, Astronomy
Publication Year
1996
Series
Garland Encyclopedias in the History of Science Ser.
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.3 in
Author
John Lankford
Item Weight
46 Oz
Item Width
7.2 in
Number of Pages
614 Pages

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
081530322X
ISBN-13
9780815303220
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038444587

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
614 Pages
Publication Name
History of Astronomy : an Encyclopedia
Language
English
Subject
General, Astronomy
Publication Year
1996
Type
Textbook
Author
John Lankford
Subject Area
Science, History
Series
Garland Encyclopedias in the History of Science Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
46 Oz
Item Length
10.2 in
Item Width
7.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
96-028558
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
"An excellent and much-needed work, highly recommended." -- Library Journal "Makes a significant contribution through its articles on the discipline's development." -- Rettig on Reference "A welcome addition to the literature of astronomy. This volume brings together, in a very readable and pleasant format, much information scattered among several publications. The unique quality of this work is its five-pronged approach to presenting information. This is an excellent encyclopedia that is easy to use. This encyclopedia is highly recommended for college libraries and for public libraries and high-school libraries that need information beyond that provided by general encyclopedia sets. It should become a standard reference volume, filling a niche in the reference collection as the initial, first-stop source on astronomical topics." -- Reference Books Bulletin/Booklist "Splendidly lives up to the editor's goal of presenting to both the general reader and the specialist a compendium of current scholarship on the history of astronomy. The editor must be congratulated on managing to incorporate such diverse, timely, important essays in onve volume. This volume is an important landmark as it will serve many uses for years." -- Planetarian "The wide range of topics covered in the Encyclopedia also expands our understanding of the history of science beyond a mere summary of the growth of scientific ideas. What Lankford does offer, is a valuable widening of our field of view of what constitutes the history of science." -- Physics Today
Series Volume Number
1
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
520/.3
Table Of Content
A sampling of the coverage: Alfonsine Tables * Astrometry * Babylonian Astronomy * Canals of Mars * Annie Jump Cannon * Caracol at Chichen Itza * Cometary Astronom y * Crimean Astrophysical Observatory * Cross-Staff * Eratosthenes * Camille Flammarion * Edmund Halley * Harvard College Observatory * Interferometer * Jupiter * Magellanic Clouds * Meridian Instruments * Nautical Almanac Offices * Photoheliograph * Reward System in Modern Astronomy * SETI Project * Solar Constant * Stonehenge * Variation of Latitude * X- Ray Astronomy * and more
Synopsis
This Encyclopedia traces the history of the oldest science from the ancient world to the space age in over 300 entries by leading experts.
LC Classification Number
QB15.H624 1997

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