The Fabric of the Heavens
Subtitle: The Development of Astronomy and Dynamics
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: November 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780226808482
Subjects: History of science; Popular astronomy; Cosmology (Astronomy); Science; Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - General; Science / Astronomy; Cosmology; History; Astronomy
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.