Agnes M. Clerke, working outside every observatory and university, wrote the book professional astronomers themselves relied on. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century chronicles the century that transformed the science: Herschel’s star-gauging, the discovery of Neptune, spectrum analysis, astronomical photography, and the birth of astrophysics itself.
Her command of the literature was legendary and her prose equal to it. Download the free EPUB for the definitive contemporary account of astronomy’s greatest century.