The Moon - Softcover

David-whitehouse

3.74

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747264953 ISBN 13: 9780747264958

Publisher: Headline Review, 2002

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About the Author:

Dr David Whitehouse is a BBC Science Correspondent and the Science Editor of BBC News Online. He obtained his doctorate from the world-famous Jodrell Bank Observatory and has worked on several space missions. He regularly writes for magazines and newspapers and is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, past president of the Society for Popular Astronomy and co-presenter of the BBC TV science series Final Frontier.

Review:

Hard on the heels of the "biography" of the famous Einstein equation E=MC2 comes a similar history, this time of our famous natural satellite. This account of the moon is by an award-winning BBC science correspondent, whose expertise shines through in a wide-ranging and authoritative account, drawing together many disparate threads. Since pre-history, the moon has fascinated man, exerting a tremendous influence over the earth and its inhabitants. It has had a central role for most cultures and their poets, painters and musicians as well as lovers have taken it as a source of inspiration. Whitehouse's book brings together these various aspects in elegant and informed prose, ranging in time from the Moonwatchers of Lascaux and the awe of primitive man, on to Galileo, Van Eyck and Thomas Harriot (an unfairly neglected British moon-scientist), then ultimately the Apollo Missions of the 1970s and 1980s. The result is a rich and unusual survey, one that should please specialists and non-specialists alike. One to observe closely.

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