Guidebook to the Constellations
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Includes index.
Chapter 1. How to use this book -- Chapter 2. Long tails of two bears -- Chapter 3. Beauty and the beast -- Chapter 4. The hunter and the hunted -- Chapter 5. The assassin and his associates -- Chapter 6. A strongman's struggles -- Chapter 7. Hospitality and homicide -- Chapter 8. The eternal thirst -- Chapter 9. The eagle and its errands -- Chapter 10. The Argonaut's adventure -- Chapter 11. Unbelievable music, unbearable sorrow -- Chapter 12. Leda and her lover -- Chapter 13. Creatures of the Celestial Sea -- Chapter 14. A fatal chariot ride -- Chapter 15. Plancius, the minister turned map maker -- Chapter 16. Keyser and de Houtman, the map maker's apprentices -- Chapter 17. Hevelius, the merchant astronomer -- Chapter 18. Lacaille: Abbe and astronomer.
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Patrick Moore's practical astronomy series.
PUBLISHED
London : Springer, c2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: xii, 863 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781441969408
1441969403
SUBJECTS
Constellations -- Charts, diagrams, etc.
Constellations -- Observers' manuals.
Stars -- Charts, diagrams, etc.
Astronomy.