Pecker, Jean Claude

Understanding the heavens : thirty centuries of astronomical ideas from ancient thinking to modern cosmology / Jean-Claude Pecker ; edited by Susan Kaufman. - Berlin : Springer, 2001. - xiii, 597 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-558) and indexes.

3540631984 (alk. paper) RM380.75


Astronomy--History.