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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Introduction
Part I: Picturing the Heavens
1. True Eye and Faithful Hand
2. The Ingenious Mechanic of Dorchester
3. Writing with Light
4. Summits of Silver
5. The Man with the Oil-Can
6. The Evangelists
7. The Aristocrat and the Artisan
8. Passion Is Good, Obsession Is Better
9. From Closet to Cosmos
10. Leaves of Glass
11. The Grandest Failure
12. An Uncivil War
Part II: Seeing the Light
13. The Odd Couple
14. What’s My Line?
15. Laboratories of Light
16. Deconstructing the Sun
17. A Strange Cryptography
18. Trumpets and Telescopes
19. Burn This Note
20. A Spectacle of Suns
21. The Cloud That Wasn’t There
22. The Union of Two Astronomies
Part III: Money, Mirrors, and Madness
23. Mr. Hale of Chicago
24. The Universe in the Mirror
25. Threads to a Web
26. Size Matters
27. A Night to Remember
28. Oculis Subjecta Fidelibus
Epilogue
References
Appendices
Time Line
Glossary of Names
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Illustration Sources and Permissions
Index
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