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Star Tales

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Star Tales

By Ian Ridpath

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About the book

Every night, a pageant of Greek mythology circles overhead. Perseus flies to the rescue of Andromeda, Orion faces the charge of the snorting Bull, and the ship of the Argonauts sails in search of the Golden Fleece. Constellations are the invention of human imagination, not of nature. They are an expression of the human desire to impress its own order upon the apparent chaos of the night sky. Modern science tells us that these twinkling points of light are glowing balls of gas, but the ancient Gr...Show more

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ISBN

9780718894788

Publisher

James Clarke & Co Ltd

Published year

2018

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1

Original title

Star Tales

Format

Paperback

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