In a year that will probably be remembered almost as much for books about the millennium as for the turn of 2000 A.D itself, Patrick Moore's Millennium Yearbook celebrates.....well, the wrong millennium! This thoroughly entertaining book - which is for everyone, not just astronomers - contains articles on King Alfred's chronological work, reviews of the new Star Catalogue by the Arab Al-Sufi and the latest edition of Ptolemy's Almagast. And foreshadowing the change to metric units by 1000 years, the book uses arabic numbers instead of Roman - but there is a conversion table if you have trouble with the idea of "zero" and prefer the older system.
In a year that will probably be remembered almost as much for books about
the millennium as for the turn of 2000 A.D itself, Patrick Moore's Millennium
Yearbook celebrates.....well, the wrong millennium! This thoroughly entertaining
book - which is for everyone, not just astronomers - contains articles
on King Alfred's chronological work, reviews of the new Star Catalogue
by the Arab Al-Sufi and the latest edition of Ptolemy's Almagast. And foreshadowing
the change to metric units by 1000 years, the book uses arabic numbers
instead of Roman - but there is a conversion table if you have trouble
with the idea of "zero" and prefer the older system.