Babylon to Voyager and Beyond
Subtitle: A History of Planetary Astronomy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 23, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9780521808408
Subjects: Solar system; Science/Mathematics; Planets; Science; Astronomy - General; History; Science / History; Cosmology; Planetology
First sentence: It is easy to ignore the skies these days when many of us live in light-polluted cities, rushing around without time to think, but things were very different for our distant ancestors.