System of the stars, the
Auteur :
Clerke, Agnes Mary
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781108014168
Date de publication :
17 juin 2010
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 x 2,6 cm
Poids :
590 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
The System of the Stars (1890), a non-technical survey of sidereal astronomy in the nineteenth century, contains some of the earliest published astrophotographs. The work is important today in the context of the nineteenth-century intellectual debates on the relationship between the sciences and religious belief.