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u/I_like_doughnuts ยท 3 pointsr/askastronomy

The Georgian Star by Michael Lemonick. Although it focuses on the lives of William and Caroline Herschel, it is an interesting and easily digestible story of a particular time in the history of astronomy.

[Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology] (http://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Illustrated-History-Astronomy-Cosmology/dp/0226594416/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452133510&sr=8-1&keywords=cosmology+john+north) by John North. I bought this on a whim. It is very informative, but parts of the text have overwhelmed me because of my ignorance of subjects such as trigonometry and calculus.