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Comet Science		QTY: inc GST within Australia
	The Study Of Remnants from the Birth of the Solar System This book provides a comprehensive overview of our current knowledge of comets. It presents a fascinating survey of the study of comets thoughout history and includes the most recent discoveries on the comets Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake.

 

Great Comets		QTY: inc GST within Australia
	This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of the biggest and most awe-inspiring of all comets: those that have earned the title 'Great'. It focuses on great comets Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp, which gripped attention world-wide in 1996 and 1997.

 

Hubble Vision		QTY: inc GST within Australia
	Further Adventures with the Hubble Space Telescope 2nd Edition This book provided a magnificent portfolio of the latest and greatest images from the HST, woven together with a lucid text explaing the most exciting discoveries. The second edition has been completely revised, updated and expanded to include all the latest astronomical discoveries.

 

Fire In The Sky		QTY: inc GST within Australia
	Comets And Meteors, the Decisive Centuries, in British Art And Science Comets And Meteors are spectacular and awe-inspiring natural phenomena, which are among natures's most compelling icons. Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries produced a larger number and greater variety of representations of comets and meteors than anywhere else.

 

Cometography		QTY: inc GST within Australia
	Cometography is a catalogue of every comet observed throughout history. It is the most complete and comprehensive collection of data on comets available. Cometography comes in four sequential volumes and this, the first, covers ancient times though to the end of the eighteenth century.

 

Glorious Eclipses		QTY: inc GST within Australia
	This beautiful large-format volume deals with eclipses of all kinds - lunar, solar and even those elsewhere in the Universe. Lavishly illustrated throughout, it brings together in one place historical, scientific and personal accounts of eclipses, and contains some of  the best photographs ever taken.