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Includes bibliographies and index.

"Published under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union and the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science."

pt. A. Tycho Brahe to Newton -- pt. B. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Astronomy--History.
Astrophysics--History.

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