Highly readable, thorough, well referenced and beautifully illustrated,
Explorers of the Southern Sky: a History of Australian Astronomy (Cambridge
University Press, £60/$90, ISBN 0 521 36575 9) is a tome worth
having. Authors Raymond Haynes, Roslynn Haynes, David Malin and Richard McGee
begin with Aboriginal images of the Moon and Milky Way and end with a radio
telescope as wide as the whole Australian continent.
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