History 135C
Department of History
University of California, Irvine
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NOTE TO THE READER: I constructed this website to accompany "Exploring the Cosmos", a course on the History of Astronomy that I was privileged to teach at UCI from 1996 until my retirement in 2008.  I developed the website to serve as a reference and resource for my students.  Their insightful comments, questions, and suggestions helped shape its content and structure over the years.  I hope the information and ideas you find on these pages will both satisfy and further stimulate the curiosity that led you here. Instructor:    Dr. Barbara J. Becker E-mail:   bjbecker@uci.edu Chapel Hill, April 2010

Time and space -- the stuff of when and where. Sly spiders weave your fabric with subtle sturdy threads that trap the now and then and here and there. Sublime the trace -- the sum of all we share. Why's wonders frame our rubric with flimsy fragile schemes that map the here and now and then -- and dare.