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The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope

Autor Ronald Florence
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 aug 1995
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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ISBN-13: 9780060926700
ISBN-10: 0060926708
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial

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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.