Peter Grego and David Mannion – ‘Galileo and 400 years of Telescopic Astronomy‘

Book cover: Galileo and 400 years of Telescopic Astronomy

Sunday 19th December 2010

You may be interested in a new book by Peter Grego (Editor of Popular Astronomy magazine) and David Mannion, entitled ‘Galileo and 400 years of Telescopic Astronomy‘.

The book is a description of astronomical discovery over the last 400 years and looks at what might happen to Telescopic Astronomy over the whole EM spectrum, plus the new astronomies of Neutrinos, Cosmic Rays and Gravitational Waves in the next 40 years! There are descriptions of many projects that can be undertaken by the reader and the Foreword is written by Sir Arnold Wolfendale FRS (14th Astronomer Royal).

The book is published by Springer and can be found at all decent bookshops, retailing at £26.99.


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