The History of the Heavens

Name: Historie des Himmels
Author: Pluche, Antoine

Historie des Himmels

attr. Pluche, Antoine

German

Noël-Antoine Pluche 1739 · published 1764

1122 pages

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First from German

English translations of this work exist from another source language, but this specific text has never been translated.

The work 'Histoire du ciel' by Noël-Antoine Pluche was originally published in French (first edition 1739). The English translation by J. B. de Freval, titled 'The History of the Heavens', was published in 1740. The book in question is a 1764 edition, which is a later printing of this existing English translation from the French. Since the original work was in French, not German, and an English translation from the French already exists, this is not a first translation, nor is it a translation from the German source language.

Related translations found:

The history of the heavens, considered according to the notions of the poets and philosophers, compared with the doctrines of Moses. Translated from the French of the Abbe Pluche. By J.B. de Freval, Esq., trans. J. B. de Freval (1740) [complete] source

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Why did humanity begin to worship the stars? Abbot Pluche takes readers on a provocative journey through the history of the heavens to unmask the origins of idolatry and the scientific fallacies of the Enlightenment.