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- Title : Lowell and Mars.

- Author : William Graves Hoyt.

- Description : This book is the definitiure study of lowells colourful and controversial career.

- Published Year : 1976.

- Number of pages : 366 pages.

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- Title : Galileos Plant.

- Author : Thomas Hockey.

- Description : Discover the history of humankinds guest to understand the giant planet Jupiter before the era of photography.

- Published Year : 1999.

- Number of pages : 208 pages.

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- Title : Comets, Popular Culture and the Birth of Modern Cosmology.

- Author : Sara J. Schechner

- Description : The author looks at the popular understanding of comets, and looks at how "Vulgar Superstitions" became part of the foundation of modern cosmology.

- Published Year : 1997.

- Number of pages : 351 pages.

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- Title : Brother Astronomer.

- Author : Brother Guy Consolmagno

- Description : A wonderful contribution to the ongoing science and religion debate, from some one living in both worlds.

- Published Year : 2000.

- Number of pages : 229 pages.

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 - Title : Edwin Hubble mariner of the Nebulae.

- Author : Gale E. Christianson.

- Description : This biography of Edwin Hubble has been acclaimed by professionals and laymen alike.

- Published Year : 1995.

- Number of pages : 396 pages.

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 - Title : The dilemmas of an upright man.

- Author : J.L Heilbron.

- Description : This book gives a fascinating account of the life Max Planck of the founders of modern physics.

- Published Year : 1986.

- Number of pages : 225 pages.

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 - Title : Conversing with the planets.

- Author : Anthony Aveni

- Description : The author interweaves astronomy, mythology and anthropology to explore what the universe means to us.

- Published Year : 1994.

- Number of pages : 235 pages.

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 - Title : Elites in conflict.

- Author : Mary Ann James

- Description : The antebellum clash over the Dudley observatory in the united states in the 1850s.

- Published Year : 1987.

- Number of pages : 292 pages.

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  - Title : Moving heaven and earth.

- Author : John Henry

- Description : This book looks at Copernicus and the solar system.

- Published Year : 2001.

- Number of pages : 156 pages.

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 - Title : The measure of all thing.

- Author : Ken Alder.

- Description : Amidst the chaos of the French revolution two intrepid astronomers set out to measure the world.

- Published Year : 2002.

- Number of pages : 400 pages.

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 - Title : The man who sold the Milky Way. 

- Author : David Levy.  

- Description : A biography of Bart Bok.

- Published Year : 1993.

- Number of pages : 234 pages.

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 - Title : Astronomy through the ages.

- Author : Robert Wilson.  

- Description : The story of the human attempt to understand the universe.

- Published Year : 1997.

- Number of pages : 291 pages.

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 - Title : Gods in the sky.

- Author : Allan Chapman.  

- Description : This book that accompanies the hugely popular TV series of the same name. The book follows astronomy form the ancients to the renaissance.

- Published Year : 1997.

- Number of pages : 336 pages.

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 - Title : Astronomy and Cosmology.

- Author : John North.

- Description : The author demonstrates how surveying the skies helped generate the geometrical and mathematical principles to early science.

- Published Year : 1994.

- Number of pages : 658 pages.

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 - Title : Cosmos Vol.1

- Author : Alexander Von Humboldt.

- Description : Originally published in 1845, the originally five set described the physical universe.

- Published Year : 1997.

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- Title : Planets and perception.

- Author : William Sheehan

- Description : The author details of the development of lunar and planetary astronomy from 1609 – 1909.

- Published Year : 1988.

- Number of pages : 309 pages.

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- Title : The man who measured the universe.

- Author : John and Mary Gribbin

- Description : The study by astronomers of the universe during the last century.

- Published Year : 2004.

- Number of pages : 124 pages.

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- Title : Mercator

- Author : Nicholas Crane

- Description : The man who mapped the Plant

- Published Year : 2002.

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- Title : The discovery of time

- Author : Stuart Mccready.

- Description : This book tries to explain the many different approaches to the understanding of time.

- Published Year : 2001.

- Number of pages : 250 pages.

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- Title : A history of astrology

- Author : Peter Whitfield

- Description : This book follows the history of a subject that for many thousands of years was very closely linked with astronomy.

- Published Year : 2001.

- Number of pages : 202 pages.

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- Title : Measuring eternity

- Author : Martin Gorst

- Description : The search for the beginning of time.

- Published Year : 2001.

- Number of pages : 313 pages

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- Title : The Star of Bethlehem

- Author : Mark Kidger

- Description : An Astronomer's view of one of the world's greatest stories.

- Published Year : 1999

- Number of pages : 300

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- Title : Time Lord

- Author : Clark Blaise

- Description : Sir Sandford Fleming and the creation of standard time.

- Published Year : 2000

- Number of pages : 235

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- Title : The Moon and the Westen Imagination

- Author : Scott L. Montgomery

- Description : The Moon has presented a variety of faces to philosophers, writers, artists and scientists.

- Published Year : 1999

- Number of pages : 255

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- Title : Galileo's Daughter

- Author : Dava Sobel

- Description : This book looks at Galileo's life as never seen before

- Published Year : 1999

- Number of pages : 420

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- Title : To Father

- Author : Dava Sobel

- Description : The story of Galileo and his daughter

- Published Year : 2001

- Number of pages : 355

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- Title: The mapping of the heavens

- Author: Peter Whitfield

- Description: In the superbly illustrated book, look at the ways that the heavens have been portrayed throughout history.

- Published Year: 1995

- Number of pages: 133

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- Title: Sacred Earth sacred stones

- Author: Brian leigh Molyneaux and Piers Vitebsky

- Description: This book is a magnificently illustrated world surrey, with superb colour photographs of a brand range of ancient sites and their significance.

- Published Year: 2001

- Number of pages: 249 

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- Title: Essays on Galileo vol. 2

- Author: Stillman Drake

- Description: This book is concerned with Galileo and the history of philosophy and science.

- Published Year: 1999

- Number of pages: 376

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- Title: The lunar men

- Author: Jenny Uglow

- Description: In the 1760’s in the English midlands a group of amateur experimenter met, they formed the lunar society, because it met in Birmingham every full moon and kick started the industrial revolution.

- Published Year: 2002

- Number of pages: 563

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