... our newly imagined space, we should prize aesthetics over scientific accuracy or truth. Reviving the space museum through contemporary ... inadvertently, only widened the gap between our scientific literacy and the political choices we are asked to...
... in full colour. This last aspect makes the book more accessible to those with at least some degree of scientific literacy, but it will appeal particularly to students and researchers. Importantly for such a volume, it also has a useful index...
...to historians of astronomy and students of the philosophy of science, but it could be read by anyone with a reasonable level of scientific literacy. It is illustrated, though not profusely, with black-and-white diagrams and photographs, and ends with...