By Govert Schilling
- Offers a different mix of informative textual content, great illustrations and classy layout
- Examines the a hundred most vital discoveries because the invention of the telescope
- Features astounding photos, involved in the biggest telescopes in the world and in house, that painting far away corners of the universe
- Author Govert Schilling is a popular astronomy journalist and technological know-how communicator
In his Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries, astronomy journalist Govert Schilling tells the tale of four hundred years of telescopic astronomy. He appears to be like on the a hundred most vital discoveries because the invention of the telescope. Doing what Schilling does most sensible, he is taking the reader on an experience via either area and time. photos and extraordinary images line the pages of this booklet, delivering the reader an break out from this international and a call for participation to a global a ways past what the unaided human eye can detect.
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