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Discovery of the universe : an outline of the history of astronomy from the origins to 1956 / by Gérard de Vaucouleurs

pt. I. Ancient astronomy, from its origins to the end of the Middle Ages. The origins of astronomy -- Primitive astronomy in China, Chaldea and Egypt -- The cosmology of primitive peoples -- The ...
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Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet

Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to happen one day, it is hard to imagine a time when Mars was a mysterious and ...
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The original 'Mr. Eclipse:' How a 19th-century astronomer calculated the dates of over 13,000 eclipses

For nearly a century, the 1887 book "Canon of Eclipses" was considered to be the authoritative work on solar and lunar eclipses. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
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A popular history of astronomy during the nineteenth century by Agnes M. Clerke

Title vignette, photograph: Jupiter 1879; Saturn 1885; frontispiece, mounted photograph: The great nebula in Orion SCDIRB has 2 copies. SCDIRB c. 1 (39088000570994) has author's signature and address ...
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He witnessed the sun’s power ‘like nobody else before or since.’ Now his first portrait has been found

When solar storms erupt from the sun and reach Earth, their intensity is measured against a historical benchmark: the Carrington Event. Now, a portrait of 19th century British solar astronomer Richard ...
The Conversation

Since the late 19th century, adventurous female ‘eclipse chasers’ have contributed to science in Australia

Toner Stevenson is affiliated with the University of Sydney, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Humanities. She is currently Vice President of Sydney City Skywatchers, an amateur astronomy ...