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Starlight detectives: how astronomers, inventors, and eccentrics discovered the modern universe
Starlight detectives: how astronomers, inventors, and eccentrics discovered the modern universe
Author
Hirshfeld, Alan
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Publication Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Book
Show Edition
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Sequim - Nonfiction (Adult)
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Astronomers
Astronomers -- History -- Popular works
Astronomy
Astronomy -- History
Astrophysics
Astrophysics -- History
Cosmology
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History
Table of Contents
From the Book - First edition.
Part I. Picturing the heavens. True eye and faithful hand
The ingenious mechanic of Dorchester
Writing with light
Summits of silver
The man with the oil-can
The evangelists
The aristocrat and the artisan
Passion is good, obsession is better
From closet to cosmos
Leaves of glass
The grandest failure
An uncivil war
Part II. Seeing the light. The odd couple
What's my line?
Laboratories of light
Deconstructing the sun
A strange cryptography
Trumpets and telescopes
Burn this note
A spectacle of suns
The cloud that wasn't there
The union of two astronomies
Part III. Money, mirrors, and madness. Mr. Hale of Chicago
The universe in the mirror
Threads to a web
Size matters
A night to remember
Oculis subjecta fidelibus.
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9781934137789
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