Great Astronomers
Great Astronomers
by R.S. Ball
PREFACE.
It has been my object in these pages to present the life of each astronomer in such detail as to enable the reader to realise in some degree the man's character and surroundings; and I have endeavoured to indicate as clearly as circumstances would permit the main features of the discoveries by which he has become known.
There are many types of astronomers--from the stargazer who merely watches the heavens, to the abstract mathematic ...