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1. Ancient Egyptian sky magic 2. The origin of the zodiac 3. The basic astronomy of Stonehenge 4. Some puzzles of Ptolemy's star catalog 5. Ptolemy and the maverick motion of Mercury 6. How astronomers finally captured Mercury 7. Islamic astronomy 8. The astronomy of Alfonso the Wise 9. From Aristarchus to Copernicus 10. The Great Copernicus Chase 11. The Tower of the Winds and the Gregorian calendar 12. Tycho Brahe and the Great Comet of 1577 13. Galileo and the phases of Venus 14. The Galileo affair 15. Johannes Kepler and the Rudolphine Tables 16. An astrolabe from Lahore 17. Fake astrolabes 18. Newton, Halley and the comet 19. Eighteenth-century eclipse paths 20. The 1784 autobiography of William Herschel 21. The great comet that never came 22. Unlocking the chemical secrets of the cosmos 23. The discovery of the satellites of Mars 24. The first photograph of a nebula 25. The great comet and the Carte 26. James Lick and the founding of Lick Observatory 27. Atget's eclipse watchers 28. Faintness means farness 29. The mysterious nebulae 1610-1924 30. Harlow Shapley and the Cepheids 31. A search for Russell's original diagram 32. Dreyer and Tycho's world system 33. Robert Trumpler and the dustiness of space 34. The discovery of the spiral arms of the Milky Way 35. The great comet of 1965 36. Albert Einstein: a laboratory in the mind.