Great Astronomers

Description

Great Astronomers is a book by Irish astronomer Robert Stawell Ball. Short biographies of famous astronomers including: Ptolemy; Copernicus; Tycho Brahe; Galileo; Kepler; Isaac Newton; Flamsteed; Halley; Bradley; William Herschel; Laplace; Brinkley; John Herschel; The Earl Of Rosse; Airy; Hamilton; Le Verrier; and, Adams.

This book has 90,354 words, and 137 pages in the PDF version.

Production notes: This ebook of Great Astronomers was published by Global Grey in 2021, and updated on the 7th August 2024. The artwork used for the cover is 'Galileo Demonstrating the New Astronomical Theories' by Félix Parra.