The Story of Astronomy

Humanity has always gazed at the stars with wonder – and through the ages we have tried to understand the mysteries behind what we see.  “The Story of Astronomy” is full of entertaining insights and asides while shedding light on topics like why we have 60 minutes in an hour, where the days of the weeks come from and when people discovered the earth wasn’t flat.  Richly informative, highly readable and illustrated with 150 paintings, drawings, diagrams and photographs this is a fascinating 3000-year story of our search for answers in the stars.