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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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Meet Williamina Fleming, a 19th-century Scottish maid who became an astronomer

In the late 19th century, a Scottish immigrant named Williamina Fleming went from working as a maid to a career as a pioneering astronomer. The claim that Fleming went from being a maid to building a ...
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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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Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th‑century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet

Camille Flammarion’s work imagined what might exist beyond Earth in the universe. Three Lions/Hulton Archive via Getty Images Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an ...