Mercury

MercuryAuthor: William Sheehan ISBN: 9781789140125 Publisher: Reaktion Books Year first published: 01 Feb 2019 Pages: 176 Format: Hardback The last of the five naked eye planets discovered in ancient times, Mercury has long been an elusive, enigmatic world. As seen from the Earth, it never emerges far from the Sun, and astronomers in the telescopic era found it challenging to work out such basic data as its rotation period, the inclination of its axis, and

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