For example, one might have wished for entries on Giovanni Bianchini, the most important Italian mathematician and astronomer of the fifteenth century; David Fabricius, prolific almanac-maker and correspondent of Kepler; Georg Eimmart, who built a private observatory in Nuremberg and with his daughter, Maria Clara, made many lunar telescopic drawings in the 1690s; or Edward Joshua Cooper, a busy nineteenth-century observer with a private observatory at Markree Castle in Ireland. For such figures, readers may consult HockeyThomas (eds), Biographical encyclopedia of astronomers (2 vols, New York, 2007), reviewed in this journal, xxxix (2008), 2008–4.
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A complete list of all the illustrations in both sets can be found in the electronic version. See the following review.
