The Astronomical Scrapbook: Skywatchers, Pioneers and Seekers in Astronomy

by Geertrui van Overwalle and Joseph Ashbrook

This collection of 83 articles on the history of astronomy is the harvest of a quarter of a century spent in seeking out intriguing, unusual and half-forgotten events. Joe Ashbrook wrote a column regularly for the monthly magazine Sky and Telescope. Professor Owen Gingerich, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has helped in the selection of the very best of these timeless vignettes, and he has contributed a foreword to the collection...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521106044
• ISBN13: 9780521106047
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"