Starseekers
Starseekers | Rare and modern books | Wilson, Colin
Rare and modern books
Wilson, Colin
Hodder & Stoughton,
1980
Starseekers
Starseekers | Rare and modern books | Wilson, Colin
Rare and modern books
Wilson, Colin
Hodder & Stoughton,
1980
7.25 €
(Hyde,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1980
- ISBN
- 0340258594
- Place of printing
- London
- Author
- Wilson, Colin
- Publishers
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Size
- 10 x 7.25 inches
- Edition
- First Edition
- Keyword
- Cosmology, History, Astronomy
- Cover description
- Very Good
- Binding description
- H
- Dust jacket
- True
- State of preservation
- Very Good
- Languages
- English
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- True
Description
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with rubbing to upper and lower rear fore-edges and tiny nick to spine foot. 271pp. A wide-ranging study of astronomical discovery and the means to it. The three sections of the book are 'Ancient Cosmology' which includes Neolithic astronomy and early observations, the 'Era of Discovery' - Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Newton and Herschel and finally 'The Exploding Universe' which traces the acceleration of astronomical discovery since Einstein and Quantum Theory.
