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Minding the Heavens: The Story of our Discovery of the Milky Way (Repost)

Posted By: melia
Minding the Heavens: The Story of our Discovery of the Milky Way (Repost)

Leila Belkora, "Minding the Heavens: The Story of our Discovery of the Milky Way"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0750307307 | 427 Pages | PDF | 26.96 MB

Today, we accept that we live on a planet circling the sun, that our sun is just one of billions of stars in the galaxy we call the Milky Way, and that our galaxy is but one of billions born out of the big bang. Yet as recently as the early twentieth century, the general public and even astronomers had vague and confused notions about what lay beyond the visible stars.