The Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star

The Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star by Pierre Sokolsky

In The Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star, Pierre Sokolsky does a nice job in covering the history of solar mechanics and exploration, concisely and clearly explaining things in his own language but also, in one of my favorite aspects of the book, offering up a number of lengthy passages from his source material, letting us hear those early thinkers in their own words.

The early sections on pre-Scientific Revolution observations are detailed and often fascinating,


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