A01=Ian Glass
Author_Ian Glass
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Product details
- ISBN 9780198570998
- Weight: 738g
- Dimensions: 163 x 242mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2005
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Galileo, Newton, Herschel, Huggins, Hale, Eddington, Shapley and Hubble: these astronomers applied ideas drawn from physics to astronomy and made dramatic changes to the world-pictures that they inherited. They showed that celestial objects are composed of the same materials as the earth and that they behave in the same way. They displaced successively the earth, the sun and finally the milky way galaxy from being the centre of the universe.
This book contains their biographies and outlines their greatest discoveries. Hard work, physical insight, desire for fame and a strong belief in the rightness of their own ideas were characteristics of all eight. Their often quirky personalities led them into bitter controversies with their contemporaries. But their successes arose from the outstanding clarity of their thoughts, their practical ability and their strong sense of direction in science.
Ian Glass
SAAO
PO Box 9
Observatory 7935
South Africa
