Planetary Pioneers
"Did you know? A Chinese astronomer, Gan De, spotted one of Jupiter's moons with his naked eye some two thousand years before Galileo viewed four of the moons through a telescope in 1610. The highest mountain in the Solar System is Olympus Mons on Mars - it is a little under three times as tall as Mount Everest. Pluto, first discovered in 1930, was demoted to a 'dwarf planet' in 2006. In Planetary Pioneers, physicist, computer technologist and amateur astronomer David Quarmby paints a vivid picture of each of the planets and tells the extraordinary stories of the people who discovered and mapped them - from trailblazing pioneers such as Coperernicus and Galileo to gentleman amateurs such as William Herschel."--Publisher's description.
56 pages
English edition · First published 2011 by Book Guild · ISBN 9781846245480
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