Seekers of the Stars: Famous Astronomers

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Cosmos
Cosmos 4.40 avg rating — 155,628 ratings
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Galileo
Galileo 3.66 avg rating — 18,233 ratings
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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,254 ratings
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The Astrologer
The Astrologer 3.85 avg rating — 72 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time 4.21 avg rating — 467,045 ratings
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Somnium: The Dream, or Posthumous Work on Lunar Astronomy
Somnium: The Dream, or Posthumous Work on Lunar Astronomy 3.49 avg rating — 405 ratings
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Johannes Kepler Life and Letters
Johannes Kepler Life and Letters 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres 4.09 avg rating — 981 ratings
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The sidereal messenger of Galileo Galilei
The sidereal messenger of Galileo Galilei 3.95 avg rating — 697 ratings
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Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo 3.69 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love 3.75 avg rating — 30,046 ratings
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Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic
Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic 3.86 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition 4.35 avg rating — 668 ratings
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Doctor Copernicus (The Revolutions Trilogy, #1; Scientific Tetralogy, #1)
Doctor Copernicus (The Revolutions Trilogy, #1; Scientific Tetralogy, #1) 3.64 avg rating — 1,062 ratings
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Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World (Great Minds Series)
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World (Great Minds Series) 4.03 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Tychonis Brahe Dani Scripta Astronomica
Tychonis Brahe Dani Scripta Astronomica 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Tycho Brahe: Mapping the Heavens
Tycho Brahe: Mapping the Heavens 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe and his Assistants, 1570–1601
On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe and his Assistants, 1570–1601 3.94 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres 3.19 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries
Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries 3.68 avg rating — 165 ratings
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The Martyrs Of Science Or The Lives Of Galileo, Tycho Brahe And Kepler
The Martyrs Of Science Or The Lives Of Galileo, Tycho Brahe And Kepler 3.51 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Science and Religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550: From Aristotle to Copernicus
Science and Religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550: From Aristotle to Copernicus 3.66 avg rating — 29 ratings
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From Copernicus to Einstein
From Copernicus to Einstein 3.89 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican 4.07 avg rating — 1,281 ratings
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The Cantor Dimension
The Cantor Dimension 3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe
Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe 4.24 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Patrick Moore: The Autobiography
Patrick Moore: The Autobiography 3.97 avg rating — 125 ratings
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The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe
The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe
by: Dan Falk
3.70 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Stargazers: Galileo, Copernicus, the Telescope and the Church
Stargazers: Galileo, Copernicus, the Telescope and the Church 4.20 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Discoverers of the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel
Discoverers of the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel 3.83 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars 3.59 avg rating — 3,469 ratings
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America's First Great Eclipse: How Scientists, Tourists, and the Rocky Mountain Eclipse of 1878 Changed Astronomy Forever
America's First Great Eclipse: How Scientists, Tourists, and the Rocky Mountain Eclipse of 1878 Changed Astronomy Forever 3.97 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Stephen Hawking On Trial: Confronting the Big Bang
Stephen Hawking On Trial: Confronting the Big Bang 3.46 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe 4.25 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
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The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos
The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos 3.90 avg rating — 132 ratings
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The Essential Galileo
The Essential Galileo 3.82 avg rating — 120 ratings
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It Came From Outer Space Wearing an RAF Blazer!: A Fan's Biography of Sir Patrick Moore
It Came From Outer Space Wearing an RAF Blazer!: A Fan's Biography of Sir Patrick Moore really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Herschel Chronicle: The Life-Story of William Herschel and his Sister Caroline Herschel
The Herschel Chronicle: The Life-Story of William Herschel and his Sister Caroline Herschel it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Space Has No Frontier: The Terrestrial Life and Times of Sir Bernard Lovell
Space Has No Frontier: The Terrestrial Life and Times of Sir Bernard Lovell 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633
Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633 3.80 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology
Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Galileo: A Life
Galileo: A Life 3.78 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Galileo: Watcher of the Skies
Galileo: Watcher of the Skies 3.50 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Hubble: Imaging Space and Time
Hubble: Imaging Space and Time 4.49 avg rating — 265 ratings
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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos 3.66 avg rating — 2,109 ratings
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Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae
Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae 3.87 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Beyond the Observatory
Beyond the Observatory 3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution
It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Through Rugged Ways to the Stars
Through Rugged Ways to the Stars 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Of Stars and Men: Human Response to an Expanding Universe
Of Stars and Men: Human Response to an Expanding Universe 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Starlight
Starlight liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Six-Cornered Snowflake
The Six-Cornered Snowflake 4.04 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Percival Lowell: The Culture and Science of a Boston Brahmin
Percival Lowell: The Culture and Science of a Boston Brahmin 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Watershed: A Biography of Johannes Kepler
The Watershed: A Biography of Johannes Kepler 4.33 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Carteggio Inedito Di Ticone Brahe: Giovanni Keplero E Di Altri Celebri Astronomi E Matematici Dei Secoli Xvi. E Xvii. Con Giovanni Antonio Magini, ... De' Medici in Bologna
Carteggio Inedito Di Ticone Brahe: Giovanni Keplero E Di Altri Celebri Astronomi E Matematici Dei Secoli Xvi. E Xvii. Con Giovanni Antonio Magini, ... De' Medici in Bologna 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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De Nova Et Nullius Aevi Memoria, A Mundi Exordio Prius Conspecta Stella (1573) (Latin Edition)
De Nova Et Nullius Aevi Memoria, A Mundi Exordio Prius Conspecta Stella (1573) (Latin Edition) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Tycho Brahe's Path to God: A Novel
Tycho Brahe's Path to God: A Novel
by: Max Brod
3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Ich war des Sternenjunkers Narr
Ich war des Sternenjunkers Narr really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Tycho Brahe: Pioneer of Astronomy
Tycho Brahe: Pioneer of Astronomy
by: Don Nardo
3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus 3.78 avg rating — 613 ratings
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Tycho Brahe: Astronomer
Tycho Brahe: Astronomer
by: Mary Gow
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe 3.91 avg rating — 335 ratings
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The World of Copernicus
The World of Copernicus 3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Bearing the Heavens: Tycho Brahe and the Astronomical Community of the Late Sixteenth Century
Bearing the Heavens: Tycho Brahe and the Astronomical Community of the Late Sixteenth Century 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Poetic Structure of the World: Copernicus and Kepler
The Poetic Structure of the World: Copernicus and Kepler really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Scientific World of Copernicus: On the Occasion of the 500th Anniversary of His Birth 1473-1973
The Scientific World of Copernicus: On the Occasion of the 500th Anniversary of His Birth 1473-1973 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics, Part A, Tycho Brahe to Newton (General History of Astronomy)
Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics, Part A, Tycho Brahe to Newton (General History of Astronomy) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Science and Religion, 1450-1900: From Copernicus to Darwin
Science and Religion, 1450-1900: From Copernicus to Darwin 3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings