Book of Donmon Teith

In the nineteenth century, the British Government spent money measuring the distance between the earth and the sun using observations of the transit of Venus. T

The International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year represented a remarkable international collaborative scientific effort that has been largel

Much of what is known about the universe came from the study of celestial shadows. This book looks in detail at the way eclipses and other celestial shadows hav

This edited volume contains 24 different research papers by members of the History and Heritage Working Group of the Southeast Asian Astronomy Network. The chap

This book offers an in-depth, global history of the British Magnetic Survey - the nineteenth-century, British-government-funded efforts to measure and understan