Cassini's Vision
GIOVANNI CASSINI, young Italian astronomer, saw humanity's earliest proofs of what truly is in the heavens. What he observed overturned the fables of the ancients who had tried so hard to explain their stars and planets, and their world.But the new truths were highly dangerous.The Cassini of your history books was seduced from Bologna in his mid-life by a lucrative offer from the France's Sun King. Louis had him head a new Paris Observatory, the world's greatest. Cassini rebranded as French, married into the aristocracy and began a long, staid and famous dynasty of French astronomy.But did you know Gian Cassini had an earlier Italian wife? CE…
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- ISBN: 978-0-648-84664-2
- EAN: 9780648846642
- Produktnummer: 35523988
- Verlag: Brian Lavery
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.3 cm 316 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 316
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Brian Lavery was born in Sydney. He's been a monk, a teacher, a hippie, a rebel, a nomad, a corporate geek, a trainer, a world traveller, and now an idler. He tried surviving Melbourne, Canberra and Darwin, but he settled in Queensland with Robyn, and he wonders where the years went.
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