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Title: 'Superb' is the right word for this book
Review: It's hard to make history interesting. It's even harder when there's science involved - but Hoskin does it anyway. The Illustrated History of Astronomy is a book that is very readable, very understandable, and intellectual. It's a large book and it's packed with information, but that doesn't get in the way of the stories of the people who made astronomy what we know it today. The one thing I wish there'd been more of was... more. Hoskin covers the distant past very, very, extremely [insert more positive adjectives) well, but like most authors of astronomy it starts to thin out around the 1940s. And that's ok because technically it is a HISTORY book, I just wish there was more coverage!
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