In Search of Planet Vulcan:The Ghost in Newton’s Clockwork Universe by Richard Baum and William Sheehan June 26, 2007
Posted by webmaster in : Great Books of Science , 1 comment so farThere aren’t many good books on the history of observational astronomy out there. The public perception of the lone astronomer standing vigil at the eyepiece is rapidly vanishing into the past.
In Search of Planet Vulcan reads like a good mystery novel. (more…)