The Economist (US), December 22nd, 1990
UNIVERSE. By Michael Rowan-Robinson. Longman; 180 pages; 17.95 [British pounds]. W. H. Freeman; $42.95
PEOPLE throughout history have studied the stars and told tales about them, reading portents into their wanderings. Modern astronomy has inherited constellations named by the Greeks and Romans and stars named by the Arabs-Aldebaran, Betelgeuse, Algol, Vega-but every culture has observed the stars and named them. The wonder felt when looking at the stars affects even those who profess themselves experts on them, be they Magi or mathematicians.
Astronomy still remains, in many eyes, the pur...
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