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Nature 448, 27-28 (5 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448027b; Published online 4 July 2007

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BOOK REVIEWEDThe Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began

by Stuart Clark

Princeton University Press: 2007. 211 pp. $24.95/£15.95

During the nineteenth century, astronomy was transformed from a mathematically oriented science preoccupied with mapping the positions and movements of celestial bodies to a physical science aiming to understand their nature and constitution. In The Sun Kings, science writer Stuart Clark offers a captivating account of this tortuous and passionately fought century-long transformation.