torch-bearers
By: by Alfred Noyes.
Publisher: Sheed and Ward
Published: 1937
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
Notes: In the American edition, New York, Frederick A. Stokes company, the trilogy entitled: "The torch-bearers", and each volume has special title: v.1. Watchers of the sky ; v.2. The book of earth ; v.3. The last voyage.
Table of contents: value: v.1. Wathers of the sky: Prologue. Copernicus. Tycho Brabe. Kepler. Galileo. Newton. William Herschel conducts. Sir John Herschel remembers. Epilogue.; value: v.2. The book of earth: The book of earth. The Greeks. Moving eastward. The torch in Italy. In France. In Sweden. Lamarck and the revolution. In germany. In England. Epilogue.; value: v.3. The last voyage.