Fire in the Sky
Subtitle: Comets and Meteors, the Decisive Centuries, in Art and Science
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780521663595
Subjects: Art treatments & subjects; Cosmology & the universe; History; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - General; European; Art, British--18th century; Science / Astronomy
First sentence: In order to understand the contributions of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century British astronomers and artists to comet/meteor studies, we must backtrack to the seventeenth century when the telescope made its debut with Galileo (1609-10).