Great Astronomers

Great Astronomers
ISBN-10
146559034X
ISBN-13
9781465590343
Series
Great Astronomers
Category
Astronomers
Pages
372
Language
English
Published
1906
Publisher
Library of Alexandria
Author
Sir Robert Stawell Ball

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Sir Robert Stawell Ball. title, 'Historyof Physical Astronomy from the Earliest Ages to the Middle ofthe Nineteenth Century,' whenhefails to observe anynotice of the discoveriesof Sir W. R. Hamilton in the theory of the 'Dynamics ofthe ...

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