The torch-bearers
By: by Alfred Noyes.
Publisher: W. Blackwood and sons
Published: 1922
Place of publication: Edinburgh; London
Language: eng
Notes: In the American edition (New York, Frederick A. Stokes company) the trilogy is entitled "The torch-bearers", and each volume has special title: v. 1. Watchers of the sky; v. 2. The book of the earth; v. 3. The last voyage.
Table of contents: title: [v. 1. Watchers of the sky]: Prologue.  Copernicus.  Tycho Brahe.  Kepler.  Galileo.  Newton.  William Herschel conducts.  Sir John Herschel remembers.  Epilogue.; title: v. 2. The book of earth: The book of the earth.  The Greeks.  Moving eastward.  The torch in Italy.  In France.  In Sweden.  Lamarck and the revolution.  In Germany.  In England.  Epilogue.; title: v. 3.  The last voyage.