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<i><b>Winner of the 2021 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize for Historical Astronomy</b></i><br><br> In <i>Decoding the Stars</i>, Ileana Chinnici offers an account of the life of the Jesuit scientist Angelo Secchi (1818-1878). In addition to providing an invaluable account of Secchi’s life and work—something that has been sorely lacking in the English-language scholarship—this biography will be especially stimulating for those interested in the evolution of astrophysics as a discipline from the ni
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- Author
- Ileana Chinnici
- Publisher
- Koninklijke Brill N.V.
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789004387331
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Physics, Memoir
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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