Murdin, L. Under Newton’s Shadow. Astronomical Practices in the Seventeenth Century. 1st. Ed. Pub. Adam Hilger. 1985
pp.viii, 152 with b/w. text figs. 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
Lesley Merdin surveys the characters and personal lives of British astronomers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
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