Seeing and Believing

My sister gave me another astronomy-themed book. It's Seeing and Believing by Richard Panek from Fourth Estate publishing.



It's about the development of the telescope! Cool!

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I enjoyed this book. I learned about the history of the telescope and the sequence of events leading up to the understanding of the workings of the solar system and the Universe. I particularly liked learning about Galileo and how he kicked off the use of the telescope for observing the "fixed" stars. It also gave me a better appreciation of radio astronomy.