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Originally Posted by flatbutt
It's the background details of the lives and discoveries of all the great ones including a lot of tech detail. I was fascinated by the political aspects of astronomy in the early days as well as the development of reflectors vs refractors.
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"First Light" by Dan Preston
"The Perfect Machine" by Ronald Florence
"The last Stargazers" by Emily Levesque
All non-fiction stories about astronomy, astronomers and telescopes. Telescopes have as many stories, myths, histories, lies, etc as any famous building or monument.