Isbn: 9780801888090 - secrets of the hoary deep: a personal history of modern astronomy (19 resultados)

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Condición: Good. illustrated edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

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Condición: New. Part history, part memoir, and part science, this is the tale of x-ray astronomy from its infancy through what can only be called its early adulthood. It also offers the companion story of how the tools, techniques, and practices designed to support and develop x-ray astronomy were transferred to optical, infrared, and radio astronomy. Num Pages: 432 pages, 35 color photos, 32 halftones, 62 line drawings. BIC Classification: PDX; PG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 187 x 37. Weight in Grams: 884. . . hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Condición: New. Part history, part memoir, and part science, this is the tale of x-ray astronomy from its infancy through what can only be called its early adulthood. It also offers the companion story of how the tools, techniques, and practices designed to support and develop x-ray astronomy were transferred to optical, infrared, and radio astronomy. Num Pages: 432 pages, 35 color photos, 32 halftones, 62 line drawings. BIC Classification: PDX; PG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 187 x 37. Weight in Grams: 884. . . hardcover. . . . .…

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket. Pictorial is crisp and glossy. Book is bound in black cloth over boards with gold lettering down the spine. Covers are crisp and clean. Corners are square. Binding is tight and secure. pages are crisp, clean, and bright. Images are printed in full color and B&W. 411 pages. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY GIACCONI on the FFEP. Johns Hopkins University Press. No publication date on the title page. Copyright page is dated 2008. A very good copy. This is an oversized book, so extra postage will be necessary for priority or international shipping. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. Signed by Author(s).…

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Cloth. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Excellent and well reviewed account with a lot of scientific detail.; the birth of X-ray astronomy, Hubble and ESO, VLT. pp.xiii.413, credits. Illus. DW in archival sleeve.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. The format is approximately 7.25 inches by 9.25 inches. xiii, [3], 411, [5] pages. Acronyms and Abbreviations. Illustrations ( including color plates). Notes. Name Index. Subject Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Minor discoloration inside front board at the hinge line. This book is an account of the development of astronomy from 1959 to 2006 as told by one of the participants. It is intended as a narrative of the author's own understanding of the field in an intellectual sense and its development as he experienced it. Riccardo Giacconi (October 6, 1931 - December 9, 2018) was an Italian-American Nobel Prize-winning (2002) astrophysicist who laid down the foundations of X-ray astronomy. Giacconi worked on the instrumentation for X-ray astronomy; from rocket-borne detectors in the late 1950s and early 1960s, to the first orbiting X-ray astronomy satellite, in the 1970s. Giacconi's pioneering research continued in 1978 with the Einstein Observatory, the first fully imaging X-ray telescope put into space, and later with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which was launched in 1999 and is still in operation. Giacconi also applied his expertise to other fields of astronomy, becoming the first permanent director (1981-1993) of the Space Telescope Science Institute, followed by Director General of the European Southern Observatory from 1993 to 1999, overseeing the construction of the Very Large Telescope, then President of Associated Universities, Inc. (1999-2004) managing the early years of the ALMA array. The discovery of x-rays continues to have a profound and accelerating effect on the field of astronomy. It has opened the cosmos to exploration in ways previously unimaginable and fundamentally altered the methods for pursuing information about our solar system and beyond. Nobel Prize winner Riccardo Giacconi's highly personal account of the birth and evolution of x-ray astronomy reveals the science, people, and institutional settings behind this incalculably important and deeply influential discipline. Part history, part memoir, and part cutting-edge science, Secrets of the Hoary Deep is the tale of x-ray astronomy from its infancy through what can only be called its early adulthood. It also offers the companion story of how the tools, techniques, and practices designed to support and develop x-ray astronomy were transferred to optical, infrared, and radio astronomy, drastically altering the face of modern space exploration. Giacconi relates the basic techniques developed at American Science and Engineering and explains how, where, and by whom the science was advanced. From the first Earth-orbiting x-ray satellite, Uhuru, to the opening of the Space Telescope Science Institute and the lift-off of the Hubble Space Telescope to the construction of the Very Large Telescope, Giaconni recounts the ways in which the management methods and scientific methodology behind successful astronomy projects came to set the standards of operations for all subsequent space- and Earth-based observatories. Along the way he spares no criticism and holds back no praise, detailing individual as well as institutional failures and successes, reflecting upon how far astronomy has come and how far it has yet to go. Crisp, informative, and prognostic, Giacconi' s story will captivate, inspire, and, at times, possibly infuriate professional and amateur astronomers across the breadth of the field and at all stages of their personal and professional development.…

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. illustrated edition. 432 pages. 9.25x7.25x1.75 inches. In Stock.