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Since the dawn of human consciousness, the sun, the moon, and the stars have inspired awe, curiosity, fear, and delight. The great works of art collected in this book beautifully convey the sense of wonder and magic that have always attended these…

Ferdinand Verbiest s.j. (1623-1688) als wetenschapsmens : was hij een groot geleerde? Bracht hij verouderde wetenschap naar China?

Anno 1688. Diepe droefheid heerst in 't hart van China's Keizer. Hem is een vriend ontvallen, een gerespecteerd vertrouwensman, een eminent geleerde/ de Vlaamse jezuït Ferdinand Verbiest... Deze missionaris heeft gepresteerd wat velen onmogelijk…

Jantar Mantar: The Astronomical Observatory at Jaipur is one of the many unique and distinguished creations of the ambidextreous Maharaja Sawai Jai SingII, the founder of Jaipur: It is the largest observatory in India and has been attracting…

What star is that? Where is the Southern Cross? Who was Orion? This book answers these questions and many more. Its unique simplified maps make it easy to find the constellations in the southern hemisphere skies, and the stars within them. Clear…

Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern…

On his deathbed in 1601, the greatest naked-eye astronomer, Tycho Brahe, told his young colleague, Johannes Kepler, “Let me not have lived in vain.” For more than thirty years, Tycho had made meticulous observations of planetary movements and the…