Stamping Through Astronomy

Stamps and other postal documents are an attractive vehicle for presenting astronomy and its development. Written with expertise and great enthusiasm, this unique book offers a historical and philatelic survey of astronomy and some related topics on space exploration. It contains more than 1300 colo...

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Main Author: Dicati, Renato. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2829-6
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505 0 # |a 1 The origins of Astronomy -- 2�The ancients Astronomy -- 3�Medieval Astronomy -- 4�The revival of Astronomy and the Copernican revolution -- 5 Galileo and the� new views of the sky -- 6�The Mechanical Universe -- 7�The development of instrumentation -- 8�Observations and discoveries in the Solar System -- 9�The advent of Astrophysics -- 10 The discovery of the Universe -- 11�The new astronomies.���. 
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