This book will take the story of astronomy on from where Allan Chapman
left it in Stargazers, and bring it almost up to date, with the
developments and discoveries of the last three centuries. He covers the
big names - Halley, Hooke, Herschel, Hubble and Hoyle; and includes the
women who pushed astronomy forward, from Caroline Herschel to the
Victorian women astronomers. He includes the big discoveries and the
huge ideas, from the Milky War, to the Big Bang, the mighty atom, and
the question of life on other planets. And he brings in the
contributions made in the US, culminating in their race with the USSR to
get a man on the moon, before turning to the explosion of interest in
astronomy that was pioneered by Sir Patrick Moore and The Sky at Night.