Great Astronomers

The Author is SIR ROBERT S. BALL D.Sc. LL.D. F.R.S.
Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry in the
University of Cambridge.
(Author of "In Starry Realms" "In the High Heavens" etc.)
He wrote in the preface
'..It has been my object in these pages to present the life of each astronomer in such detail as to enable the reader to realise in some degree the man's character and surroundings; and I have endeavoured to indicate as clearly as circumstances would permit the main features of the discoveries by which he has become known...'