| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
399 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-379) and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| Summary |
Traces the history of astronomy through advancements in three technologies--photography, spectrometry, and telescopy--and profiles the ambitious scientists behind the birth of modern astronomy. |
| Subject |
Astronomers -- History -- Popular works.
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Astronomy -- History.
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Astrophysics -- History.
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Cosmology -- History.
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Astronomy -- Technological innovations -- History.
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Astronomers -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9781934137789 (paperback) $19.95 |
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1934137782 (paperback) |
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