See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An ancient book on astronomy from the 1500s sold for more than £10,000 ...

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A 467-year-old astronomy book—which was the first ever to be written in English—has fetched 10,000 pounds (approx. $12,000) at auction. The “incredibly scarce” first edition of “The Castle of ...

A 467-year-old book which was the first about astronomy ever to be written in English has fetched a whooping £10,000 at auction. The 'incredibly scarce' first edition of The Castle of Knowledge by ...

Around 1800, an English schoolmistress named Margaret Bryan wrote several well-regarded textbooks on astronomy and physics for young women. While Bryan corresponded with some of the most illustrious ...

With holiday gift-giving season right around the corner, one frequent request I get is to recommend some good astronomy books for the relative beginner. Yes, books. You may remember them from way back ...

Longtime readers will recognize the name Dean Regas, astronomy contributor to The Enquirer and former cohost of the PBS series "Star Gazers," but they may not know that Regas is also the author of ...

The Historical Astronomy Division (HAD) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded its 2011 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize to Nathan Sivin for his landmark volume “Granting the Seasons: ...

Sometimes, parchment was reused to save money. Astronomy experts suspect that an older text is lurking beneath the words of the donated book, a 15th century version of a work by 13th century scholar ...