Reworking Camille Flammarion’s History of the Heavens, J. F. Blake traces how people have imagined the sky, from the first astronomers and Celtic star-lore to the origin of the constellations, the zodiac and the Pleiades. The story moves on through Ptolemy and medieval cosmology to Copernicus and Kepler’s laws.
An engaging history of star myths and early astronomy for curious stargazers. Download the free EPUB.