ISBN10: 0747273855, ISBN13: 9780747273851, [publisher: Headline Book Publishing, London] Hardcover First Edition ECLIPSE The Celestial Phenomenon which has Changed the Course of History. Duncan Steel Headline Publishing 1999 first Edition ISBN 0747273855 368pp Illustrated Hardback. This copy is in fine unmarked condition save for a small neat signature to the f.e.p. The unclipped dust wrap has a small closed tear to the fold between the front panel and the front flap. Duncan Steel's handsomely produced pocket hardback, illustrated throughout by evocative engravings, illustrations and early photographs, harks back to an era when astronomy was a popular pursuit, and not yet the preserve of computer-laden university departments. It is, essentially, a book of celestial mechanics, using the solar eclipse of August 1999 as a peg from which to hang any number of fascinating astronomical stories: how archaeologists and historians use eclipses to calibrate local calendars; how eclipse cycles can be mapped as woven patterns, revealing their regularity, so that, long before the necessary physical theories were developed, "various individuals of genius, living in societies possessing careful records of past celestial events, were able to interpret those records and deduce the lengths of the years and months to a matter of minutes and seconds"; finally, how findings from eclipses and the occultations of stars by the moon and planets revealed much about the nature ...

London: Headline Book Publishing, Date: 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. 8vo. pp. 368, b/w illustrations 1999. Headline Book Publishing ISBN 0747273855 9780747273851 [CA]

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