Described in David Hughes’ review of 1 March as “destined to be a classic”, A
History of Modern Planetary Physics may be more affordable than you thought. The
price is £100 for the three-volume set from Cambridge University Press
not, as listed in the bibliography, £100 for each volume. And in the
bestsellers from Oxford, the publisher of Simon Goodwin’s Hubble’s Universe
should have been listed as Constable.
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