I'm currently several chapters into this audio book and really enjoying it.
Based from the late 1800's and forward, it covers the origins of those famous American observatories we've heard of, and how they came about, and the people who worked at then and pioneered modern astronomy as we know it, all under conditions that were so tedious and challenging by today's standards. This book has given me a new level of respect to those pioneers.
Nicely narrated and easy to listen to.
I also enjoyed this as an audio book. I plan to listen again. It is interesting to see how theories develop and how people and politics influence the ebb and flow of ideas.
What is theory today may e fact tomorrow or it may be forgotten as another theory that fell by the wayside. But I got the impression that each new theory adds a little to the ones that are finally proved.
Marcia Bartusiak has written a well researched, objective and thoroughly enjoyable to read book - I highly recommend to anyone who'd like to follow the footsteps of those early pioneers who opened up the immenseness of the universe to us.
