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Omar W. Nasim, "The Astronomer's Chair: A Visual and Cultural History" (MIT Press, 2021)

New Books in the History of Science

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The Astronomy of the Nineteenth Century

The author is a historian of astronomy of the nineteenth century. He was struck by how many images of astronomers showed them with a chair, in a chair, or basically a chair by itself, empty, next to a telescope. "It's really identifying something that's always been under our nose, but no one's sort of honed in on it and isolated it for study," he says.

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