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Jean-Claude Pecker
Fallait-il ?crire ces textes ? Apr’s le drame apocalyptique de la Shoah, ? seul le silence est grand, tout le reste est faiblesse ?. Je me suis tu. Pendant cinquante…
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Jean-Claude Pecker Gilles Bogaert
Au debut des annees 60, Jean Claude Pecker demande a faire renaitre l'observatoire de Nice, que Garnier et Eiffel avaient eleve sous un ciel propice a l'observation des astres, tombe…
The author, a well-known astronomer himself, describes the evolution of astronomical ideas, touching only lightly on most of the instrumental developments.
P. Kamp
This is the latest effort in a sequence of presentations begun in 1949 with a series of lectures on long-focus photographic astrometry given by the author as Fulbright professor in…
What are the current ideas describing the large scale structure of the Universe? How do they relate to the observed facts? This book looks at both the strengths and weaknesses…
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Socrates knew all that was known by his contemporaries. It is true that Pico della Mirandola, Pius II, Leonardo da Vinci, and several other great minds were thoroughly in possession…
Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit, The sky is, up above the roof, Si bleu, si calme! So blue, so calm! Un arbre, par-dessus Je toit, A tree there, up…
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Edith Alicia Muller (1918-1995) was the IAU General Secretary from 1976 to 1979, the first woman to have this responsibility. Her fundamental work in solar physics concerned the chemical composition…
Jerome Lalande
Jerome Lalande craignait le mal de mer. C'est pourquoi il refusa de se joindre a l'une quelconque des nombreuses expeditions (a l'organisation desquelles il avait activement participe) destinees a etudier…
