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The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories J. L. Heilbron New edition
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The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
J. L. Heilbron
Between 1650 and 1750, four Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. This book tells how these observatories came to be, how they worked, and what they accomplished, providing a magnificent corrective to long-standing oversimplified accounts of the hostility between science and religion.
366 pages, 8 colour illustrations, 42 halftones, 87 line illustrations, 15 tables
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 2, 2001 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674005365 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Pages | 384 |
| Dimensions | 172 × 245 × 25 mm · 730 g |
| Language | English |