Setting Sail for the Universe: Astronomers and their discoveries by Donald Fernie, Rutgers University Press, $25, ISBN 0813530881 Reviewed by Roy Herbert
SIMPLY, this is an irresistible book. If you don’t want to get hooked, put it down right now and do something else. Details first. This is a collection of articles about the history of astronomy first published in the magazine American Scientist, updated where necessary.
They seethe with more adventure than is usually contained in a thriller of this kind. And the adventure is laced with amazing endurance, optimism, comedy and there’s even a touch of Edward Lear…
