{"product_id":"9789004387294","title":"Decoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist","description":"Winner of the 2021 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize for Historical AstronomyIn Decoding the Stars, Ileana Chinnici offers an account of the life of the Jesuit scientist Angelo Secchi (1818-1878). In addition to providing an invaluable account of Secchi’s life and work—something that has been sorely lacking in the English-language scholarship—this biography will be especially stimulating for those interested in the evolution of astrophysics as a discipline from the nineteenth century onward. Despite his eclecticism, reminiscent of the natural philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Secchi was in many ways a very modern scientist: open to innovation and cooperation, and a promoter of popularization and citizen science.Secchi also appears fully inserted in the cultural context of his time: he participated in philosophical and scientific debates, spread new theories and ideas, but also suffered the consequences of political events that marked those years and impacted on his life and activities.","brand":"Ileana Chinnici","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47512253694270,"sku":"9789004387294","price":7850.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9789004387294.jpg?v=1707781675","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9789004387294","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}