Great Astronomers

Robert Stawell Ball

Biographical portraits of seventeen astronomers who shaped the science, from Ptolemy and Copernicus to Galileo, Newton, the Herschels, and Le Verrier. Written by the Lowndean Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge.

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