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Of all the scientific disciplines Astronomy stands out as the all-encompassing one in that all the other sciences grew out of astronomy and are still influenced by it. A his tory of astronomy, to be complete, should trace these interscience relationships to some extent, but the story of astronomy is not subject to these constraints. By the very designation as a "story," this book was designed, and so written, to delineate the high points of astronomy and to trace the evolution of the great astronomical ideas from their birth as pure speculations in the minds of the great astronomers of the past to their present fully developed and fully accepted state. This, of course, entails a fuller discussion of the astronomers themselves than one might find in a history of astronomy or in a straightforward treatise in astronomy. We have emphasized this phase of the story of astronomy in this book. This has been very fmitful and revealed the intimate relationship among the sciences: particularly astronomy, physics, and mathematics. One can hardly speak of Kepler, Galileo, or Newton without describing their holistic approaches to astronomy. Thus Galileo considered himself a mathematician who spe

Who reads The Story of Astronomy?

Author

Lloyd Motz, Jefferson Hane Weaver (auth.)

Publisher

Springer US Imprint : Springer

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9781429494342

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Physics

Rating

3.7 / 5 (37 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14