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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 REVIEWED-The 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.
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