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Understanding the heavens : thirty centuries of astronomical idea s from ancient thinking to modern cosmology /

Pecker, Jean Claude.

Understanding the heavens : thirty centuries of astronomical idea s from ancient thinking to modern cosmology / Jean-Claude Pecker ; e dited by Susan Kaufman. - Berlin ; New York : New York : Springer, c2001. - xiii, 597 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-558) and indexes.

3540631984 (alk. paper)

00-024396


Astronomy --History.------

520.9