The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope - Tapa blanda

Florence, Ronald

 
9780060926700: The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope
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ISBN 10: 0060926708 ISBN 13: 9780060926700
Editorial: Harper Perennial, 1995

Sinopsis

Almost a half-century after is completion, the 200-inch Palomar telescope remains an unparalleled combination of vast scale and microscope detail. As huge as the Pantheon of Rome and as heavy as the Statue of Liberty, this magnificent instrument is so precisely built that its seventeen-foot mirror was hand-polished to a tolerance of 2/1,000,000 of an inch. The telescope's construction drove some to the brink of madness, made others fearful that mortals might glimpse heaven, and transfixed an entire nation. Ronald Florence weaves into his account of the creation of "the perfect machine" a stirring chronicle of the birth of Big Science and a poignant rendering of an America mired in the depression yet reaching for the stars.

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Acerca del autor

Ronald Florence was educated at Berkeley and Harvard. The author of five previous books, he lives with his wife and son on the Connecticut shore, where they raise Cotswold sheep.

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Almost a half-century after is completion, the 200-inch Palomar telescope remains an unparalleled combination of vast scale and microscope detail. As huge as the Pantheon of Rome and as heavy as the Statue of Liberty, this magnificent instrument is so precisely built that its seventeen-foot mirror was hand-polished to a tolerance of 2/1,000,000 of an inch. The telescope's construction drove some to the brink of madness, made others fearful that mortals might glimpse heaven, and transfixed an entire nation. Ronald Florence weaves into his account of the creation of "the perfect machine" a stirring chronicle of the birth of Big Science and a poignant rendering of an America mired in the depression yet reaching for the stars.

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Editorial
Harper Perennial
Año de publicación
1995
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0060926708
ISBN 13 
9780060926700
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
480
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Europaallee 1
Bad Hersfeld
36244
Alemania

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