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(Paperback)
By: Sara Schechner Genuth
ISBN: 9780691009254
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 1999
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In an investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara J. Schechner delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, She examines how "vulgar superstitions were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley and became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built.
