Full name: Seeing and Believing: How the Telescope Opened Our Eyes and Minds to the Heavens

Author: Richard Panek Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780670876280 0670876283

A concise look at the impact of the advent of the telescope on the way humans view the universe and their place in it focuses on the visionaries, beginning with Galileo, who created and perfected it. Similar books: The 4 Percent Universe by Richard Panek The Neptune File by Tom Standage The Day We Found the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak Parallax by Alan W. Hirshfeld The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel Miss Leavitt's Stars by George Johnson A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler by J. L. E. Dreyer Heavenly Intrigue by Joshua Gilder Measuring the Universe by Kitty Ferguson First Light by Richard Preston The Planets by Dava Sobel Coming of Age In The Milky Way by Timothy Ferris A History of Astronomy by A. Pannekoek Tycho & Kepler by Kitty Ferguson The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy by James Evans Comet by Carl Sagan The Code Book by Simon Singh The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin