Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics

by Mary Brück

Book Overview

Born in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century, Agnes Mary Clerke achieved fame as the author of A History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century. Through her quarter-century career, she became the leading commentator on astronomy and astrophysics in the English-speaking world. The biography of Agnes Clerke describes the life and work of this extraordinary woman. It also chronicles the development of astronomy in the last decades of pre-Einstein...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521055792
• ISBN13: 9780521055796
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"