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  1. Two on a tower
    a romance
    Author: Hardy, Thomas
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Penguin Books, London

    "Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St Cleeve, her social inferior and ten years her junior. The tower in question is a monument converted into an astronomical observatory... more

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    Universität des Saarlandes, Fachrichtung Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophone Kulturen, Bibliothek
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    "Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St Cleeve, her social inferior and ten years her junior. The tower in question is a monument converted into an astronomical observatory where together the lovers 'sweep the heavens'." "Science and romance are destined to collide, however, as work, ambition and the pressures of the outside world intrude upon the pair. In what Sally Shuttleworth calls 'a drama of oppositions and conflicts', Hardy's story sets male desire against female constancy, and 'describes an arc across the horizon of late nineteenth-century social and cultural concerns: sexuality, class, history, science and religion'."--Jacket

     
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    Contributor: Shuttleworth, Sally (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0140435360; 9780140435368
    Subjects: Adultery; Social classes; Astronomical observatories; Young men; Astronomers; Upper class; Women astronomers; Adultery; Astronomical observatories; Social classes
    Scope: xxxix, 295 Seiten, 20 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (page xv)
  2. Autopsie d'une étoile
    roman
    Author: Decoin, Didier
    Published: 1987
    Publisher:  Ed. du Seuil, Paris

    "Mon nom est David Bissagos...J'ai connu et servi un homme, Burton Kobryn. Dans un observatoire de la Cordillère des Andes, ensemble nous avons guetté la naissance d'une étoile....Bien après ces événements, son prix Nobel, sa gloire, Burton Kobryn... more

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    "Mon nom est David Bissagos...J'ai connu et servi un homme, Burton Kobryn. Dans un observatoire de la Cordillère des Andes, ensemble nous avons guetté la naissance d'une étoile....Bien après ces événements, son prix Nobel, sa gloire, Burton Kobryn m'appela dans la grande maison isolée, en Normandie sous la neige, où il s'était retiré avec sa nouvelle épouse."--Cover.

     
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    Language: French
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 2020097192
    RVK Categories: IH 32680
    Subjects: Astronomers; French language materials; Love stories
    Scope: 346 S.
  3. Life with swan
    a novel
    Author: West, Paul
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Scribner, New York

    An autobiographical novel on a marriage. The heroine is the wife, and the narrator is her admiring husband. He describes the way their common interests contribute to their happiness, be it teaching at the same university or watching together a space... more

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    An autobiographical novel on a marriage. The heroine is the wife, and the narrator is her admiring husband. He describes the way their common interests contribute to their happiness, be it teaching at the same university or watching together a space launch from Cape Canaveral. A hymn to matrimony by the author of A Stroke of Genius.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0684848643
    Subjects: Astronomers; Friendship; Novelists; Women naturalists; Women poets
    Scope: 300 S.
  4. The music of the spheres
    Author: Redfern, Elizabeth
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Century, London

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    Universitätsbibliothek Passau
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0712684301
    RVK Categories: HN 9990
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: Geschichte; Astronomers; Astronomy; Intelligence officers; Murder victims' families
    Scope: 424 S.
  5. Promised lands
    Author: Rogers, Jane
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Faber and Faber, London [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0571175716
    RVK Categories: HN 9990
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: Geschichte; Astronomers; Biographers; Biography as a literary form; History teachers; Penal colonies
    Other subjects: Dawes, William <1762-1836>
    Scope: 376 S.
  6. The world treasury of physics, astronomy, and mathematics
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Back Bay Books, Boston [u.a.]

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
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  7. Two on a tower
    Author: Hardy, Thomas
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0191610631; 0192836412; 9780191610639; 9780192836410
    Series: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
    Subjects: Literature; Fiction; FICTION / General; Adultery; Astronomers; Literatur; Astronomers; Adultery
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxv, 315 pages)
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    Cover; Contents; General Editor's Preface; Map of Hardy's Wessex; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Thomas Hardy; TWO ON A TOWER; Textual Notes; Explanatory Notes
  8. The making of Copernicus
    early modern transformations of the scientist and his science
    Contributor: Neuber, Wolfgang (Publisher); Rahn, Thomas (Publisher); Zittel, Claus (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden [u.a.]

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Neuber, Wolfgang (Publisher); Rahn, Thomas (Publisher); Zittel, Claus (Publisher)
    Language: English; German
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9789004281103; 9789004281127
    RVK Categories: AK 16100 ; CE 6913
    Series: Intersections ; 36
    Subjects: Geschichte; Astronomers; Astronomy; Astronomy; Planetology; Literatur; Rezeption
    Other subjects: Copernicus, Nicolaus, (1473-1543); Kopernikus, Nikolaus (1473-1543)
    Scope: XV, 331 S., Ill., 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  9. The making of Copernicus
    early modern transformations of the scientist and his science
    Contributor: Ayala, Lucía (Publisher)
    Published: 2015; © 2015
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden, Netherlands

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    Contributor: Ayala, Lucía (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004281103; 9789004281127
    Series: Intersections ; Volume 36
    Subjects: Geschichte; Astronomers; Astronomy; Astronomy; Planetology; Literatur; Rezeption
    Other subjects: Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473-1543); Kopernikus, Nikolaus (1473-1543)
    Scope: 1 online resource (347 pages), illustrations
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  10. Two on a tower
    Author: Hardy, Thomas
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

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    Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0192836412
    RVK Categories: HL 2983
    Edition: Reissued
    Series: Oxford world's classics
    Subjects: Adultery; Astronomers
    Scope: xxxv, 315 p., map, 20 cm
  11. The world treasury of physics, astronomy, and mathematics
    Contributor: Ferris, Timothy (Publisher); Fadiman, Clifton
    Published: [1991]; © 1991
    Publisher:  Little, Brown and Company, Boston ; New York ; Toronto ; London

    From the Publisher: An astonishing cast of more than ninety renowned writers provides thoughtful and lucid reflections on some of the major scientific topics of our time-from black holes and galaxies to artificial intelligence and chaos theory.... more

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    From the Publisher: An astonishing cast of more than ninety renowned writers provides thoughtful and lucid reflections on some of the major scientific topics of our time-from black holes and galaxies to artificial intelligence and chaos theory. Featuring essays, articles, and poems penned by notables in the worlds of both science and literature, this unique book will delight the science enthusiast and the inquisitive general reader alike.

     
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  12. La piel del cielo
    Author: Poniatowska, Elena
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Alfaguara, México

    "Mamá, ¿allá atrás se acaba el mundo?" Esta frase abre el camino a una historia fascinante: la de un hombre de enorme talento destinado a desentrañar los misterios de la astronomía. Lorenzo de Tena, inconformista y rebelde, deberá luchar contra las... more

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    "Mamá, ¿allá atrás se acaba el mundo?" Esta frase abre el camino a una historia fascinante: la de un hombre de enorme talento destinado a desentrañar los misterios de la astronomía. Lorenzo de Tena, inconformista y rebelde, deberá luchar contra las desigualdades sociales, las trampas burocráticas y las tentaciones políticas para ver realizada su vocación. Pero los mayores retos de su búsqueda no vendrán de la ciencia sino de la cara más oculta de las personas, la que esconde las pasiones y los sentimientos. Una novela que, como un telescopio, nos acerca a los desafíos más inalcanzables: las estrellas y el amor.--Desde la descripción de la editorial.

     
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    Language: Spanish
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9681908244
    RVK Categories: IQ 17340
    Edition: 1. ed., 3. reimpr.
    Subjects: Astrónomos - Novela; Emociones - Novela; Astronomers; Emotions
    Scope: 473 S.
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    Premio Alfaguara de novela 2001
  13. Two on a tower
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    Cover; Contents; General Editor's Preface; Map of Hardy's Wessex; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Thomas Hardy; TWO ON A TOWER; Textual Notes; Explanatory Notes. more

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    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
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    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
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    Cover; Contents; General Editor's Preface; Map of Hardy's Wessex; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Thomas Hardy; TWO ON A TOWER; Textual Notes; Explanatory Notes.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780191610639; 0191610631
    Series: Oxford world's classics
    Subjects: Astronomers; Adultery; Astronomers; Adultery; Literature; Fiction; Adultery; Astronomers; FICTION ; General; Loves stories; Historical fiction
    Scope: Online Ressource (xxxv, 315 p.), map.
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  14. <<The>> music of the spheres
    Author: Redfern, Elizabeth
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Century, London

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0712684301; 0712674918
    Subjects: Astronomy; Murder victims' families; Intelligence officers; Astronomers
    Scope: 424 S., 24 cm
  15. The music of the spheres
    Author: Redfern, Elizabeth
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Century, London

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld
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    WL998 R315M
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0712684301; 0712674918
    Subjects: Astronomy; Murder victims' families; Intelligence officers; Astronomers
    Scope: 424 S., 24 cm
  16. The lieutenant
    Author: Grenville, Kate
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Canongate, Edinburgh [u.a.]

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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
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    Englisches Seminar der Universität, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781847673442; 1847673449
    Subjects: Astronomers; Immigrants; Aboriginal Australians; Friendship
    Other subjects: Historical fictiongsafd
    Scope: 307 S.
  17. And the sun stood still
    Author: Sobel, Dava
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, [London] ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London

    Dava Sobel's thoughtful play brings to life the story of Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer and mathematician who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe in which the Sun stands at the centre. Plagued by self-doubt and threatened... more

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    Dava Sobel's thoughtful play brings to life the story of Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer and mathematician who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe in which the Sun stands at the centre. Plagued by self-doubt and threatened by religious censure, Copernicus resisted the publication of his work until just before his death in 1543. 'And the Sun Stood Still' follows Copernicus in those final years as he works to complete his research with the help of Georg Rheticus, a young disciple from Wittenberg, Germany.

     
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    Contributor: Foxworth, Robert (Schauspieler); Harrison, Gregory (Schauspieler); Kirby, Michael (Schauspieler); Steele, Kate (Schauspieler); Vickery, John (Schauspieler)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781580815550
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    Series: Bloomsbury Drama Online - L.A. Theatre Works - Audio Plays
    Subjects: Astronomers; Radio plays, American; Audiobooks
    Other subjects: Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473-1543)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (audio files (1 hr., 50 min., 38 sec.)), digital, stereo
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    Previously issued on CD: Los Angeles: LA Theatre Works, 2015
  18. The making of Copernicus
    early modern transformations of the scientist and his science
    Contributor: Neuber, Wolfgang (Publisher); Rahn, Thomas (Publisher); Zittel, Claus (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden [u.a.]

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Neuber, Wolfgang (Publisher); Rahn, Thomas (Publisher); Zittel, Claus (Publisher)
    Language: English; German
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9789004281103; 9789004281127
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    RVK Categories: AK 16100 ; CE 6913
    Series: Intersections ; 36
    Subjects: Geschichte; Astronomers; Astronomy; Astronomy; Planetology; Literatur; Rezeption
    Other subjects: Copernicus, Nicolaus, (1473-1543); Kopernikus, Nikolaus (1473-1543)
    Scope: XV, 331 S., Ill., 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  19. And the sun stood still
    Author: Sobel, Dava
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, [London]

    Dava Sobel's thoughtful play brings to life the story of Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer and mathematician who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe in which the Sun stands at the centre. Plagued by self-doubt and threatened... more

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    Dava Sobel's thoughtful play brings to life the story of Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer and mathematician who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe in which the Sun stands at the centre. Plagued by self-doubt and threatened by religious censure, Copernicus resisted the publication of his work until just before his death in 1543. 'And the Sun Stood Still' follows Copernicus in those final years as he works to complete his research with the help of Georg Rheticus, a young disciple from Wittenberg, Germany

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Harrison, Gregory (SynchronsprecherIn); Vickery, John (SynchronsprecherIn); Steele, Kate (SynchronsprecherIn); Kirby, Michael (SynchronsprecherIn); Foxworth, Robert (SynchronsprecherIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Audiobooks; Astronomers; Radio plays, American
    Other subjects: Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473-1543)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (audio files (1 hr., 50 min., 38 sec.))), digital, stereo
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    Previously issued on CD: Los Angeles: LA Theatre Works, 2015

    Starring Robert Foxworth, Gregory Harrison, Michael Kirby, Kate Steele and John Vickery
  20. The stargazer's sister
    Author: Brown, Carrie
    Published: [2015]
    Publisher:  Pantheon Books, New York

    William Herschel rescues his sister Caroline from a life of drudgery in Germany and brings her to England and a world of music making and stargazing. Lina serves as William's assistant and the captain of his exhilaratingly busy household. An... more

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    William Herschel rescues his sister Caroline from a life of drudgery in Germany and brings her to England and a world of music making and stargazing. Lina serves as William's assistant and the captain of his exhilaratingly busy household. An obsessive genius whom Lina adores and serves with the fervency of a beloved wife, her world collapses when William suddenly announces that he will be married

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780804197939; 0804197938
    Other identifier:
    40025630005
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Women astronomers; Astronomers; Siblings; Femmes astronomes - Grande-Bretagne - Romans, nouvelles, etc; Astronomes - Grande-Bretagne - Romans, nouvelles, etc; Frères et sœurs - Romans, nouvelles, etc; Astronomers; Siblings; Women astronomers; Historical fiction; Biographical fiction; Fiction; Biographical fiction; Historical fiction; Biographical fiction; Historical fiction
    Other subjects: Herschel, Caroline Lucretia (1750-1848); Herschel, William (1738-1822); Herschel, Caroline Lucretia - 1750-1848; Herschel, William - 1738-1822
    Scope: x, 332 pages, 22 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references

    Hanover, 1755-1772. Victory ; Moon ; Night ; Friend ; Mystery -- England, 1772-1776. Storm ; Solitude ; Seeing ; Andromeda ; Winter ; Shadow ; Planet ; Observatory House -- England, 1788-1822. Hooked ; Comet ; Silence -- Lisbon, 1823-1833. Star ; Dark -- Hanover, 1833-1848. Light.
  21. Triangulum
    a novel
    Author: Ntshanga, Masande
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Two Dollar Radio, Columbus, Ohio

    In 2040, the South African National Space Agency receives a mysterious package containing a memoir and a set of digital recordings from an unnamed woman who claims the world will end in ten years. Assigned to the case, Dr. Naomi Buthelezi, a retired... more

     

    In 2040, the South African National Space Agency receives a mysterious package containing a memoir and a set of digital recordings from an unnamed woman who claims the world will end in ten years. Assigned to the case, Dr. Naomi Buthelezi, a retired professor and science-fiction writer, is hired to investigate the veracity of the materials, and whether or not the woman's claim to have heard from a "force more powerful than humankind" is genuine. Thus begins TRIANGULUM, a found manuscript composed of the mysterious woman's memoir and her recordings. Haunted by visions of a mysterious machine, the narrator is a seemingly adrift 17-year-old girl, whose sick father never recovered from the shock of losing his wife. She struggles to navigate school, sexual experimentation, and friendship across racial barriers in post-apartheid South Africa. When three girls go missing from their town, on her mother's birthday, the narrator is convinced that it has something to do with "the machine" and how her mother also went missing in the '90s. Along with her friends, Litha and Part, she discovers a puzzling book on UFOs at the library, the references and similarities in which lead the friends to believe that the text holds clues to the narrators' mother's abduction. Drawing upon suggestions in the text, she and her friends set out on an epic journey that takes them from their small town to an underground lab, a criminal network, and finally, a mysterious, dense forest, in search of clues as to what happened to the narrator's mother

     
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  22. Digging stars
    a novel
    Author: Tshuma, Novuyo Rosa
    Published: [2023]; ©2023
    Publisher:  W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY

    "Blending drama and satire while examining the complexities of colonialism, racism, and what it means to be American, Digging Stars probes the emotional universes of love, friendship, family, and nationhood."-- With admission to The Program, an elite... more

     

    "Blending drama and satire while examining the complexities of colonialism, racism, and what it means to be American, Digging Stars probes the emotional universes of love, friendship, family, and nationhood."-- With admission to The Program, an elite interdisciplinary graduate cohort at the forefront of astronomy and technology, Rosa's dreams are finally within reach. Her research into the cosmos follows in the footsteps of her astronomer father's revolutionary work in Bantu geometries and Indigenous astronomies. A bona fide genius, he transformed the scientific landscape by fusing the best of Western and Indigenous scientific thought. Yet since his death during her childhood, Rosa has been plagued by anxiety attacks she dubs "The Terrors"--and by unresolved questions about her father's life. Who is his mysterious friend Mr. C? Who was her father, really? Ambitious, hungry for success, and determined to soar, Rosa joins the ranks of America's smartest. Her cohort of talented Fellows includes Shaniqua, her roommate, who is analyzing melanin molecules and their capacity to conduct electricity; Richard, an expert in quantum mechanics; Mausi, studying Indigenous American scientific thought; and Péralte, Rosa's estranged stepbrother whose obsessive videogaming has inspired him to become a programmer. Her classmates challenge Rosa's understanding of identity, personhood, the ethics of technology, and, most painfully, her adulation of her father, whose legacy is more complicated than it appears

     
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  23. And the sun stood still
    Author: Sobel, Dava
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, [London]

    Dava Sobel's thoughtful play brings to life the story of Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer and mathematician who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe in which the Sun stands at the centre. Plagued by self-doubt and threatened... more

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    Dava Sobel's thoughtful play brings to life the story of Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer and mathematician who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe in which the Sun stands at the centre. Plagued by self-doubt and threatened by religious censure, Copernicus resisted the publication of his work until just before his death in 1543. 'And the Sun Stood Still' follows Copernicus in those final years as he works to complete his research with the help of Georg Rheticus, a young disciple from Wittenberg, Germany

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Harrison, Gregory (SynchronsprecherIn); Vickery, John (SynchronsprecherIn); Steele, Kate (SynchronsprecherIn); Kirby, Michael (SynchronsprecherIn); Foxworth, Robert (SynchronsprecherIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Audiobooks; Astronomers; Radio plays, American
    Other subjects: Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473-1543)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (audio files (1 hr., 50 min., 38 sec.))), digital, stereo
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    Previously issued on CD: Los Angeles: LA Theatre Works, 2015

    Starring Robert Foxworth, Gregory Harrison, Michael Kirby, Kate Steele and John Vickery
  24. Starry messenger
    a book depicting the life of a famous scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, physicist Galileo Galilei
    Author: Sís, Peter
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Farrar Straus Giroux, New York

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0374371911
    Edition: 5. print
    Series: Frances Foster books
    Subjects: Astronomers; Scientists; Astronomers; Scientists
    Other subjects: Galilei, Galileo; Galileo
    Scope: [16] Bl, überw. Ill
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    Caldecott Honor Book
  25. Observing by hand
    sketching the nebulae in the nineteenth century
    Author: Nasim, Omar W.
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

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    Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Bibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780226084374
    Other identifier:
    9780226084374
    RVK Categories: UB 2483
    Subjects: Nebulae; Astronomers; Astronomy
    Scope: VII, 304 S., Ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Consolidation and coordination : Lord Rosse and his assistants -- Use and reception : biography of two images -- Conception and perception : E.P. Mason and Sir John F.W. Herschel -- Skill and instrumentation : William Lassell and Wilhelm Tempel.