A chance find in a bush op shop proved not only a bargain but an irresistible invitation to ponder the life and achievements of the scientific genius who gave our planet's regular visitor its name. In some ways that is a pity, as the comet is where, for most of us moderns, knowledge of the astronomer and polymath begins and ends. There was much to the man than that
We've always had an undeniable fascination with the Sun, the Moon, and the night sky. While astronomy made massive leaps forward with the likes of Galileo