Muirden, James

Rhyming couplets highlight the theories, discoveries, writings, and sayings of Aristotle, Plato, Pythagoras, and the Arab astronomers and mathematicians who flourished during the Dark Ages and made significant contributions to humans' understanding of the universe.

A guide to purchasing and mounting a telescope and observing the heavens. Includes illustrations and charts.

Explores some of the mysteries of the universe, including how stars are born, shine, and die, why the earth and the moon are different, the properties of comets and meteors, and the creation of the universe.

Text and illustrations present facts about astronomy, the solar system, the stars and galaxies, and men in space.

Presents synopses of all of William Shakespeare's plays in humorous rhyming verse.