Comets, Cosmology and the Big Bang: A history of astronomy from Edmond Halley to Edwin Hubble

By ALLAN CHAPMAN

This book will take the story of astronomy on from where Allan Chapman left it in Stargazers, and bring it almost up to date, with the developments and discoveries of the last three centuries. He covers the big names - Halley, Hooke, Herschel, Hubble and Hoyle; and includes the women who pushed astronomy forward, from Caroline Herschel to the Victorian women astronomers. He includes the big discoveries and the huge ideas, from the Milky War, to the Big Bang, the mighty atom, and the question of life on other planets. And he brings in the contributions made in the US, culminating in their race with the USSR to get a man on the moon, before turning to the explosion of interest in astronomy that was pioneered by Sir Patrick Moore and The Sky at Night.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lion Books
• Release date: Oct 19, 2018
• ISBN: 9780745980300

ALLAN CHAPMAN

Allan Chapman FRAS is a word-renowned historian of science. As a member of the Faculty of History, based at Wadham College, he has taught at Oxford University for most of his career. He is also a former visiting professor at Gresham College in London. The author of numerous popular books on the history of science, he has appeared on a variety of television documentaries and on BBC TV's The Sky at Night, as well as presenting his own programmes, such as Gods in the Sky and Great Scientists. His most recent books include Comets, Cosmology and the Big Bang: From Halley to Hubble (2018), Physicians, Plagues and Progress: The History of Medicine from Antiquity to Antibiotics (2016) and Stargazers: Copernicus, Galileo, the Telescope and the Church (2014).