The Fabric of the Heavens
Subtitle: The Development of Astronomy and Dynamics
Publisher: Harpercollins College Div
Published: June 1979
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780061305795
First sentence: The shopping centres would be deserted for half a day after an incident; and then the people would slowly creep out again, wistfully breathing in the silent air, like animals sniffing the wind; and reassured, they would start to go about the hundred trivial tasks of the day which the automatism of ordinary life had made endearing, comprehensible-containing no element of prediction.... One has seen rabbits scatter like this at the first report of a gun, only to re-emerge after half an hour and timidly come out to grass again-unaware that the hunter is still there, still watching.