Astronomy: A History Of Man's Investigation of the Universe By Fred Hoyle

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Astronomy: A history of man’s investigation of the universe by Fred Hoyle is illustrated, has 320 pages  and 11 Chapters covering: Earth and Sky, Some  Tools of Astronomy, Planetary Motion and Ancient Astronomy, Copernicus and  Kepler, The Theory Of  Gravitation, The Post-Netonian Era,  Instruments and the Nature of Light, The Birth of  Modern Astronomy, Stars as Thermonuclear Reactors, Structure of Our  Galaxy, and Galaxies and the Expanding Universe, and an Appendix : The Epicyclic Constructions of Hipparchus and Ptolemy.