Measuring the universe: the historical quest to quantify space
ISBN:
9780747221326 (0747221324)
Publish date: 1999
Publisher: Headline
Pages no: 306
Edition language: English
Ferguson charts the history of measuring stuff in the sky from the ancients to the end of the 20th century. The viewpoint is always from the viewer of the time, making the interesting perspective of what was not known when the discoveries are made. The historical chapters concerning Ptolemy, Coperni...