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Great comment! Maybe you can help me with a book recommendation? I was recently looking for a book which was basically your comment, but more in depth and cov
by rexer 3y ago
Great comment! Maybe you can help me with a book recommendation?
I was recently looking for a book which was basically your comment, but more in depth and covered the last couple thousand years. I wanted a to read about the history of astronomy - yknow, what was the state of the art in, say, 1350 or whatever. If you know of anything, I’d be super interested!
- physicles 3y agoUnfortunately I don't have any books to recommend. I don't remember where I learned about Cepheid variables and type 1a supernovae (maybe science shows, maybe youtube, ...) but I learned about the transit of Venus stuff on a big Wikipedia rabbit hole one evening. I think the pre-quantum mechanics era for physics and astronomy is super interesting. People figured out so much with such primitive tools, and it's all very accessible and easy to understand.
- tails4e 3y agoTerence Tao did a great lecture on this, https://youtu.be/kY1gfrhNUIg?si=9u9k8of6-jRybwCG https://youtu.be/kY1gfrhNUIg?si=9u9k8of6-jRybwCG
- HarVard93 3y agoya
- severila 3y agoYou might be interested in "Unrewarded" by "Ben Moore" which has an interesting take by telling the history of astronomy through the lives of those that made these discoveries but were not awarded a Nobel Prize.
- zuzun 3y agoBig Bang: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh.
- nolta 3y agoYou might like "Coming of Age in the Milky Way".
- rexer 3y agoThis looks perfect, thank you!
- callamdelaney 3y agoCosmos by Carl Sagan covers similar stories including the history of astronomy and the mathematics invented to explain it - it is like a whistle stop tour of these subjects and more + ties them together conceptually.
- mvdtnz 3y agoCosmos by Carl Sagan covers this history. Either the book or the still-excellent TV series.