Description The original purpose of the Longer View books is to provide charts and descriptions of the planets' travels in the years ahead.
But there is also the three-century human story (replete with controversies and ironies) of how the first new planets were discovered, each leading to the next.
And there is much to point out about these bodies' characteristics and intricate motions.
80 illustrations, and 73 short chapters, such as Herschel's oboe and telescope,.
Universal Workshop Uranus, neptune, pluto: a longer view of their history and their movements in the years ahead/guy ottewell
