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| Title | The Moon a Biography |
| Author | Whitehouse, David |
| Asset Number | 00247 |
| Publisher | Headline Book Publishing |
| ISBN | 074727228X |
| Published Date | 2001 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Printing | 2 |
| Description | Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket.
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), the Apollo Missions of the 1970s and 1980s, the unmanned missions of recent times and the exciting discovery of ice at the polar caps. |
| Category | Space Science |
| Epoch | Modern |
| Date Acquired | 01/01/2021 |
| Condition | (1) Fine |
