Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521055796)

Born in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century, Agnes Mary Clerke achieved fame as the author of A History of Astronomy during the nineteenth century. Through her quarter-century career, she became the leading commentator on astronomy and astrophysics in the English-speaking world. This biography describes not only the life and work of this extraordinary woman, but also chronicles the development of astronomy in the last decades of pre-Einstein science. Along the way, it introduces many of the great figures in astronomy of that age, including Huggins, Lockyer, Holden, and Pickering.

Author: M. T. Br?k
ISBN-10: 0521055792
ISBN-13: 9780521055796
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/21/2008
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.65d