Prehistory -- Ancient Egypt -- Mesopotamia -- The Greek and Roman world -- China and Japan -- Pre-Columbian America -- Indian and Persian astronomy -- Eastern Islam -- Western Islam and Christian Spain -- Medieval and Early Renaissance Europe -- Copernicus'
planetary theory -- The new empiricism -- The rise of physical astronomy -- New astronomical problems -- The rise of astrophysics -- Cosmogony, evolution and the sun -- The renewal of cosmology -- Radio astronomy -- Observatories in space -- Macrocosm and microcosm.
The big bang, black holes, space travel and life in other galaxies - this is the stuff of science fiction and the subject of much current speculation and research on the part of astronomers and cosmologists. This book shows how man's chronological needs helped scientific developments.
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