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  • How America's Perception of the Skies Changed
    Stella Cottam; Wayne Orchiston
    978-3-319-08341-4
    2015
    Edition 1
    • Explains how events such as comets, eclipses and planetary discoveries made astronomy popular and how advancements helped the US emerge as scientific power
    • Demonstrates the variety of means by which the non-professional was educated in scientific topics in the pre-technological age
    • Documents the long history of amateur astronomy in the US
    • Winner of the AAS 2019 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize for Historical Astronomy
    • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

    €180

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