Includes bibliographical references (page 38) and index.
Contents
The growing universe -- The first astronomers -- Nicolaus Copernicus -- Galileo Galilei -- Johannes Kepler -- Benjamin Banneker -- Mary Fairfax Somerville -- Maria Mitchell -- Annie Jump Cannon -- George Ellery Hale -- Edwin Hubble -- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar -- Lyman Spitzer Jr. -- Margaret Burbidge -- Carl Sagan, Beatrice Tinsley -- Jocelyn Bell Burnell -- Mars project scientist: Joy Crisp.
Summary
Explores the lives and discoveries of noted astronomers from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century.
