“michael hoskin”

This lively anc comprehensive book charts the developments in the history of western astronomy from prehistoric times, when farmers used the stars to predict the start of the seasons, through the merging of Babylonian and Greek astronomy, and on to the eighteeth-and nineteenth-century applications o... More

Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences, and one which has repeatedly led to fundamental changes in our view of the world. This book covers the history of our study of the cosmos from prehistory to a survey of modern astronomy and astrophysics. This is an essential text for students of the history o... More

This is a fascinating introduction to the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the mid-nineteenth century. Historical records are first found in Babylon and Egypt, and after two millennia the arithmetical astronomy of the Babylonians merged with the ... More

The International Astronomical Union and the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science have sponsored a major work on the history of astronomy, which the Press publishs are in four volumes, three of which will be divided into two parts. Publication commenced with volume 4, part A... More

Here it is, True Believers You knew we'd do it sooner or later From the Venerable Vaults of Marveldom, it's the Mighty Marvel Handbook - in the style of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s The profiles within each chapter cover everything published by the hallowed House of Ideas up until that point... More

Revealed at last--the complete map to Marvel's Earth. This guide to the diverse corners of places real and imagined includes Dr. Doom's kingdom of Latveria, Silver Sable's nation Symkaria, the Scarlet Witch's native Transia, and more.Revealed at last - the complete map to Marvel's Earth A massive g... More

Funded by the European Union, the Populus project is a major study of long-term change in Mediterranean Europe involving a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, palaeoscientists and historians. Each volume focuses on a different methodological or theoretical aspect of Mediterranean archaeology.T... More