{"product_id":"comets-cosmology-and-the-big-bang-9780745980317","title":"Comets Cosmology and the Big Bang","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fascinating story of astronomy from the seventeenth century onwards, including the huge achievements of women\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Allan Chapman writes with clarity and energy in a manner designed to both inform the general reader and stimulate thought. Engagingly written, and with great authority, he combines a manageable level of detail regarding this vast subject, with his own personal insights and experiences. His work enables the reader to both grapple with the complex historical 'big picture' of unfolding ideas over the centuries, while also appreciating the significant impact and discoveries of individual pioneers in the field. Allan is not afraid to offer challenging personal insights and raises important questions for the reader to consider. This is an engaging, detailed, informative and thought-provoking book.\" Martyn Whittock, historian, teacher, and writer\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating narrative, full of delightful anecdotes, giving a very readable overview of astronomy and our understanding of the universe.\" Martin Grossel, Emeritus Fellow in Organic Chemistry at the University of Southampton\u003cbr\u003e\"Allan Chapman is a polymath, celebrated for his superb lectures on astronomical history. This engrossing book contains an immense amount of recondite information. His lively writing retains the flavour of his lectures, and will enlighten, fascinate and entertain anyone interested in science and its social context.\" Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCOntents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 18\u003cbr\u003ePreface 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1 From the Beginning to 1700: The Origins of Astronomy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe origins of astronomy 26\u003cbr\u003eThe earliest astronomers 27\u003cbr\u003eWhat made the “Greek experience” 29\u003cbr\u003ecentral to Western thought?\u003cbr\u003eMedieval consolidation 32\u003cbr\u003eEurope’s astronomical Renaissance 35\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2 Cosmology Begins at Home: Captain Edmond Halley, 41\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFRS, RN, Astronomer, Geophysicist, and Adventurer\u003cbr\u003eThe schoolboy scientist 42\u003cbr\u003eEarly adventures: St Helena, Danzig, and across 44\u003cbr\u003eEurope: the making of a physical scientist\u003cbr\u003eEdmond Halley, the father of meteorology 47\u003cbr\u003eand geophysics\u003cbr\u003eLater adventures: Captain Halley RN takes 50\u003cbr\u003eHMS Paramore among the icebergs\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Halley and the Great Aurora Borealis 51\u003cbr\u003eof 1716\u003cbr\u003eHalley studies the nebulae and ponders 53\u003cbr\u003ecosmological vastness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e3 Could a Comet Have Caused Noah’s Flood?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChanging views about comets, 1580–1720 57\u003cbr\u003eDr Robert Hooke takes comets into the chemical 59\u003cbr\u003elaboratory in 1677\u003cbr\u003eComets tamed at last: 1680–1705 61\u003cbr\u003eNoah’s Flood, the ancient earth, comets, 62\u003cbr\u003eand the saltiness of the sea\u003cbr\u003eEdmond Halley: the Astronomer Royal 64\u003cbr\u003eand the longitude, 1720–42\u003cbr\u003eReligion and politics, a merry life and a 69\u003cbr\u003esudden death\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e4 “Let there be more light.” How Telescope Technology\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecame the Arbiter in Cosmological Research\u003cbr\u003eLong telescopes on tall poles 73\u003cbr\u003eAll done with mirrors: the early reflecting telescope 77\u003cbr\u003eJohn Hadley and his Newtonian 79\u003cbr\u003ereflecting telescope\u003cbr\u003eA golden guinea an inch: James Short turns the 81\u003cbr\u003ereflecting telescope into big business\u003cbr\u003eJohn Dollond “perfects” the refracting telescope 84\u003cbr\u003ec. 1760\u003cbr\u003e“Every gentleman must have one!” 86\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin Martin, lecturer, and entrepreneur,\u003cbr\u003emakes scientific instruments fashionable\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e5 The Rector and the Organist: Gravity, Star Clusters,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand the Origins of the Milky Way\u003cbr\u003eThomas Wright of Durham and eighteenth-century 89\u003cbr\u003especulative cosmologies\u003cbr\u003eThe Revd John Michell: the Pleiades Cluster, “dark 91\u003cbr\u003estars”, and gravitational “black holes” in 1783\u003cbr\u003eCharles Messier: comet hunter and nebula 93\u003cbr\u003ecataloguer of the Ancien Régime in Paris\u003cbr\u003eThe enterprising oboist: Herschel comes 94\u003cbr\u003eto England\u003cbr\u003eHerschel the fashionable church organist 97\u003cbr\u003eand musical impresario of Bath\u003cbr\u003eFrom organ pipes to telescopes, from acoustics 98\u003cbr\u003eto optics, and on to cosmology\u003cbr\u003eBath, 13 March 1781: William Herschel 100\u003cbr\u003ediscovers a “comet”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e6 William and Caroline Herschel Fathom the 104\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Construction of the Heavens” from an English\u003cbr\u003eCountry Garden\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Herschel’s telescope technology 106\u003cbr\u003eObserving with a Herschel telescope 107\u003cbr\u003eStars, the Milky Way, and the “Construction of 109\u003cbr\u003ethe Heavens” after 1784\u003cbr\u003e“Oh Herschel! Oh Herschel! Where do you fly? 112\u003cbr\u003eTo sweep the cobwebs out of the sky”\u003cbr\u003e“Shining fluids”, glowing rings of light, star 113\u003cbr\u003eclusters, and gravity: the Herschelian universe\u003cbr\u003eObservatory House, 1784: an account by a 116\u003cbr\u003evisiting French savant\u003cbr\u003eSir William Herschel, Knight Guelph 118\u003cbr\u003eA Herschel telescope postscript 119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e7 Measuring the Heavens and the Earth in Eighteenth-\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCentury Europe\u003cbr\u003ePart 1: In Pursuit of Venus: Astronomy’s First Great\u003cbr\u003eInternational Adventure\u003cbr\u003eIn pursuit of the solar parallax 122\u003cbr\u003eVenus in transit, June 1761 125\u003cbr\u003eVenus transits the sun in 1769 129\u003cbr\u003eLe Gentil and the 1769 transit 133\u003cbr\u003ePractical observation, Venus, and the longitude 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e8 Measuring the Heavens and the Earth in Eighteenth-\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCentury Europe\u003cbr\u003ePart 2: Pendulums, Planets, and Gravity: Creating\u003cbr\u003ethe Science of Geodesy\u003cbr\u003eThe curious behaviour of M. Richer’s clock: 140\u003cbr\u003eCayenne, Brazil, 1672\u003cbr\u003eGeophysics by degrees and the shape of the earth 142\u003cbr\u003eThe Astronomer Royal, the mountain, and 147\u003cbr\u003ethe village fiddler\u003cbr\u003eGeophysics goes to the laboratory: 149\u003cbr\u003eHenry Cavendish and the torsion balance\u003cbr\u003eexperiment, 1797–98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e9 Cosmology and the Romantic Age 152\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom daffodil fields to starry fields: a universe of 152\u003cbr\u003eawe and wonder\u003cbr\u003eLaws of wonder: Herschel, Laplace, 153\u003cbr\u003eand the laws of gravitation\u003cbr\u003eMysteries beyond the spectrum: 156\u003cbr\u003eSir William Herschel discovers the “dark\u003cbr\u003espectrum” in 1800\u003cbr\u003eScience for Georgian ladies and gentlemen 157\u003cbr\u003eThe London physician, the Bavarian orphan, 160\u003cbr\u003eand the wonders of light\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Bessel and the distance of the stars 163\u003cbr\u003eCaroline the comet hunter 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e10 Sir John Herschel: The Universal Philosopher of 168\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe Age\u003cbr\u003eJohn Frederick William Herschel: a genius 168\u003cbr\u003ein the making\u003cbr\u003eJohn Herschel inherits the cosmological 170\u003cbr\u003e“family business”\u003cbr\u003eOptics, chemistry, photography, and a gift 172\u003cbr\u003efor friendship\u003cbr\u003eSlough, marriage, then the Cape of 174\u003cbr\u003eGood Hope\u003cbr\u003eThe Herschel cosmos of 1850 178\u003cbr\u003eThe size of the stars and their absolute brightness 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSir 11 There Must Be Somebody Out There! 184\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fascination with “aliens” 184\u003cbr\u003eThe Revd Dr Thomas Dick of Broughty 186\u003cbr\u003eFerry, Dundee\u003cbr\u003eNew York, August 1835, and the 188\u003cbr\u003e“Great Lunar Hoax”\u003cbr\u003eJules Verne: from the earth to the moon in 1865 191\u003cbr\u003ePity the poor Martians dying of thirst: 1877 193\u003cbr\u003eThe Martians turn nasty 195\u003cbr\u003eSo is there really anybody out there? 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e12 Mary Somerville: Mathematician, Astronomer, and 198\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGifted Science Communicator\u003cbr\u003eMiss Mary Fairfax, the independent-minded 198\u003cbr\u003eadmiral’s daughter\u003cbr\u003eTwo contrasting husbands 200\u003cbr\u003eContinental travel and international 201\u003cbr\u003emathematical fame\u003cbr\u003eMary Somerville, astronomy, and the Herschels 202\u003cbr\u003eEarly mathematical and physical works 205\u003cbr\u003eMary Somerville, the physical sciences expositor 206\u003cbr\u003eOn the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, 208\u003cbr\u003ePhysical Geography, and On Molecular and\u003cbr\u003eMicroscopic Science\u003cbr\u003eNatural laws, religion, and her final voyage 211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e13 Sir George Biddell Airy of Greenwich: Astronomer 212\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoyal to the British Empire\u003cbr\u003eSir George Biddell Airy (1801–92): 213\u003cbr\u003eearly life and achievements\u003cbr\u003eNew instruments, chronometers, time, 217\u003cbr\u003eand the electric telegraph\u003cbr\u003eAiry the scientific civil servant 222\u003cbr\u003eAiry and the discovery of Neptune, 1846 223\u003cbr\u003eThe Astronomer Royal and his staff 225\u003cbr\u003eJohn Herschel, the universal philosopher 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e14 Barristers, Brewers, Peers, and Engineers: Paying for 228\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAstronomical Research: the British “Grand Amateur”\u003cbr\u003eTradition\u003cbr\u003eFunding astronomy in Great Britain: 228\u003cbr\u003ethe roots of a tradition\u003cbr\u003eThe Grand Amateur astronomical world 231\u003cbr\u003eThe Liverpool brewer and the Manchester 234\u003cbr\u003esteam-engine builder\u003cbr\u003eThe Irish nobleman who discovered the 240\u003cbr\u003e“whirlpools” of deep space\u003cbr\u003eThe Royal Astronomical Society: 246\u003cbr\u003ea Grand Amateur creation\u003cbr\u003ePostscript: Grand Amateur astronomy today 247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e15 The Camera Does Not Lie: The Birth of\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAstronomical Photography\u003cbr\u003eMonsieur Louis Daguerre, Sir John Herschel, 249\u003cbr\u003eand Mr William Henry Fox Talbot\u003cbr\u003eDr John William Draper of New York: 252\u003cbr\u003ethe first astronomical photographer\u003cbr\u003eThe “miracle” of the “wet collodion” 253\u003cbr\u003ephotograph, 1851\u003cbr\u003eWarren De La Rue: the Guernsey-born paper 255\u003cbr\u003emanufacturer and pioneer of\u003cbr\u003eastronomical photography\u003cbr\u003eThe first “custom-designed” photographic 258\u003cbr\u003etelescope\u003cbr\u003eJames Nasmyth’s The Moon (1874): 260\u003cbr\u003ephotographing the moon at second hand\u003cbr\u003eThe “dry gelatin” plate and new possibilities 262\u003cbr\u003eIsaac Roberts: photographer of the galaxies 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e16 Unweaving the Rainbow\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1: Sunlight, Sunspot Cycles, and Magnetic\u003cbr\u003eStorms 266\u003cbr\u003eUnderstanding the Sun, Our Nearest Star 266\u003cbr\u003eThe great solar storm of 1859 268\u003cbr\u003e“Rice grains”, “granules”, and the solar surface 270\u003cbr\u003eSolar knowledge by 1860: a résumé 271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e17 Unweaving the Rainbow\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 2: Cosmologists and Catholic Priest Pioneers\u003cbr\u003eof Astrophysics\u003cbr\u003eAn afternoon walk in Heidelberg in 1859 275\u003cbr\u003eSir William and Lady Margaret Huggins discover 277\u003cbr\u003egaseous nebulae from a south London garden\u003cbr\u003eFather Angelo Secchi of Rome: 281\u003cbr\u003ethe Jesuit pioneer of astrophysics\u003cbr\u003eThe Stonyhurst College Jesuit Observatory 282\u003cbr\u003eThe sun and the spectroscope 284\u003cbr\u003eOur American cousins and our Irish friends 287\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e18 The Revd Thomas William Webb and the Birth 291\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eof “Popular Astronomy”\u003cbr\u003eThe Revd Mr Webb of Hardwicke, 291\u003cbr\u003eastronomer and popularizer\u003cbr\u003eCelestial Objects for Common Telescopes and 293\u003cbr\u003eWebb’s telescopes\u003cbr\u003eThe “modest” amateur astronomer and the 295\u003cbr\u003enew reflecting telescope\u003cbr\u003eVictorian clergymen-astronomer-engineers 297\u003cbr\u003eAstronomical societies and The English Mechanic 300\u003cbr\u003emagazine\u003cbr\u003ePopular astronomy in France 303\u003cbr\u003eJohn Jones of Brangwyn Bach and other 303\u003cbr\u003eworking-men astronomers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e19 “Ladies of the Night”: The Astronomical Women\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ein Great Britain and America 310\u003cbr\u003eScientific education for women 310\u003cbr\u003eProfessional astronomy for women in the 312\u003cbr\u003e“Old World”\u003cbr\u003eAgnes Mary Clerke of Skibbereen, 316\u003cbr\u003ethe Irish historian of astronomy\u003cbr\u003eWomen in the new amateur astronomical 319\u003cbr\u003esocieties after 1881\u003cbr\u003eFlorence Taylor: from Leeds to Minnesota 320\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Brown, the sun, and the eclipse-chasers 322\u003cbr\u003eThe first women Fellows of the Royal 325\u003cbr\u003eAstronomical Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e20 Astronomy for the Masses in the Victorian Age\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand Early Twentieth Century\u003cbr\u003eThe age of self-improvement: Sunday schools, 327\u003cbr\u003eMechanics’ Institutes, and the Victorian\u003cbr\u003e“knowledge industry”\u003cbr\u003eLord Henry Brougham: pioneer of popular 329\u003cbr\u003eeducation\u003cbr\u003eAstronomy shows, demonstrations, 331\u003cbr\u003eand lectures\u003cbr\u003eRichard Anthony Proctor and Sir Robert 337\u003cbr\u003eStawell Ball: stars of the astronomical\u003cbr\u003electure circuit\u003cbr\u003eSir Arthur Stanley Eddington and 341\u003cbr\u003eSir James Hopwood Jeans: astronomy’s first\u003cbr\u003e“Knights of the airwaves”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e21 Under New World Skies: The Great American\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObservatories\u003cbr\u003eNorth America’s first big observatories 345\u003cbr\u003eThe Harvard astrophysicists 348\u003cbr\u003eThe ladies of the Harvard Observatory 348\u003cbr\u003eAlvan Clark and Sons, opticians of Boston, Massachusetts 350\u003cbr\u003e American Liberal Arts Colleges and astronomy 352\u003cbr\u003ePercival Lowell, the “canals” of Mars, 353\u003cbr\u003eand Flagstaff, Arizona, in the west\u003cbr\u003eAmerica’s two giant refractors: the Lick and 355\u003cbr\u003eYerkes Observatories\u003cbr\u003eAmerica’s giant reflecting telescopes 358\u003cbr\u003eConclusion 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e22 On the Eve of the Watershed: Astronomy and\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCosmology c. 1890–1920\u003cbr\u003eThe universe: a steady, stately place? 363\u003cbr\u003eThe Michelson–Morley Experiment, 1887 364\u003cbr\u003e“Twinkle, twinkle, little star; now we know just 367\u003cbr\u003ewhat you are”: the birth, life, and death of stars\u003cbr\u003eThe Hertzsprung–Russell Diagram, 1910–13 371\u003cbr\u003eHenrietta Swan Leavitt and the “Cepheid” stars 373\u003cbr\u003eHarlow Shapley, the spiral galaxies, and the 375\u003cbr\u003eMilky Way\u003cbr\u003eThe Great Debate: Smithsonian Museum, 379\u003cbr\u003eWashington DC, 26 April 1920\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e23 It’s All Relative. The “Alice in Wonderland” World of 381\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarly Twentieth-Century Physics\u003cbr\u003eThe “physics quake” of the 1890s: X-rays, 382\u003cbr\u003eatoms, and radiation\u003cbr\u003eThe mighty atom 385\u003cbr\u003eMercury, Vulcan, and the problems of gravity 387\u003cbr\u003eThe patent clerk of Bern: Albert Einstein and 388\u003cbr\u003erelativity\u003cbr\u003eSir Arthur Stanley Eddington, Einstein, and the 392\u003cbr\u003esolar eclipse of 1919\u003cbr\u003eAlbert Einstein the affable celebrity 394\u003cbr\u003ePostscript 397\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e24 Crossing the Watershed: Edwin Hubble,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe Celebrity Astronomer of the Galaxies\u003cbr\u003eFrom small-town Missouri to self-created 398\u003cbr\u003eEnglish gentleman\u003cbr\u003eHubble, red shifts, and the “extra-galactic” universe 400\u003cbr\u003eHubble’s Law and Constant 403\u003cbr\u003eThe subsequent development of Hubble’s cosmos: 405\u003cbr\u003eMilton Humason, Walter Baade,\u003cbr\u003eand Allan Sandage\u003cbr\u003eMilton Humason 406\u003cbr\u003eWalter Baade 407\u003cbr\u003eAllan Sandage 408\u003cbr\u003eEdwin Hubble and the stars of Hollywood 410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e25 The Belgian Priest–Cosmologist and the “Cosmic Egg” 412\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFather Georges Lemaître of Leuven 412\u003cbr\u003eMaking sense of modern cosmology: 414\u003cbr\u003ethe Royal Astronomical Society discussion meeting,\u003cbr\u003eBurlington House, Piccadilly, London,\u003cbr\u003e10 January 1930\u003cbr\u003eFather Lemaître and Sir Arthur Eddington 416\u003cbr\u003e“It’s all a ‘big bang’”: Sir Fred Hoyle and his 417\u003cbr\u003esteady state cosmology of 1948\u003cbr\u003eReturn to the stars 420\u003cbr\u003eSubrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and the 422\u003cbr\u003ewhite dwarfs\u003cbr\u003eLemaître, Pope Pius XII, and the big bang 426\u003cbr\u003eStephen Hawking and the black hole 426\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e26 Sir Bernard Lovell and the “Radio Universe” 428\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKarl Jansky’s “merry-go-round” and the birth of 429\u003cbr\u003eradio astronomy\u003cbr\u003eThe “radio window” and how the radio telescope 431\u003cbr\u003eworks\u003cbr\u003eGrote Reber of Wheaton, Illinois: an amateur leads 433\u003cbr\u003ethe way – yet again!\u003cbr\u003eSir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell and 435\u003cbr\u003eJodrell Bank, Cheshire\u003cbr\u003eOther great radio telescopes 441\u003cbr\u003eThe achievement of radio astronomy 443\u003cbr\u003eSir Bernard Lovell: a recollection 446\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e27 “Fly Me to the Moon”: The Birth of the Space Age 449\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRockets into space 449\u003cbr\u003eThe rocket men 451\u003cbr\u003eThe first space flights 455\u003cbr\u003eYuri Gagarin (1934–68), the first space man, 1961 457\u003cbr\u003eThe Apollo missions 457\u003cbr\u003eTouchdown: the Sea of Tranquillity, 20 July 1969 459\u003cbr\u003eThe Book of Genesis goes to the moon: 460\u003cbr\u003eChristmas 1968\u003cbr\u003eThe end of manned missions 460\u003cbr\u003eThe unmanned space probes 461\u003cbr\u003eThe Hubble Space Telescope 463\u003cbr\u003eExploring the surface of Mars 464\u003cbr\u003eTerra-forming Mars 467\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e28 A Universe for the People: Sir Patrick Moore and the 468\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew Amateur Astronomy\u003cbr\u003ePopular astronomical fallacies 469\u003cbr\u003eTelevision and astronomy’s new popular audience 472\u003cbr\u003eSir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore and 473\u003cbr\u003eThe Sky at Night, 1957–2012\u003cbr\u003eMoonstruck: amateur astronomy and the moon 476\u003cbr\u003eafter 1950\u003cbr\u003eTransient lunar phenomena, or “TLP”s 478\u003cbr\u003eGood telescopes for all 479\u003cbr\u003eThe researches of modern amateur astronomers 481\u003cbr\u003eThe post-1950 amateur astronomy movement 483\u003cbr\u003eCarl Edward Sagan and Cosmos, 1980 484\u003cbr\u003eSir Patrick Moore: the man and the astronomer 485\u003cbr\u003e29 Postscript: Creation Revisited: Where Do We 489\u003cbr\u003eStand Today?\u003cbr\u003eLife on other worlds and space travel, 490\u003cbr\u003etwenty-first-century style\u003cbr\u003eCreation, cosmology, and the mind of God 493\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: The Cock Lane Ghost, or the 496\u003cbr\u003e“Ghost Catch”\u003cbr\u003eNotes 497\u003cbr\u003eList of In-text Illustrations 508\u003cbr\u003eFurther Reading 513\u003cbr\u003eIndex 545\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SPCK Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48736509133143,"sku":"9780745980317","price":12.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745980317.jpg?v=1723810696","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/comets-cosmology-and-the-big-bang-9780745980317","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}