Starlight Detectives : How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe.
Title:
Starlight Detectives : How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe.
Author:
Hirshfeld, Alan.
ISBN:
9781934137796
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (401 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Picturing the Heavens -- Chapter 1: True Eye and Faithful Hand -- Chapter 2: The Ingenious Mechanic of Dorchester -- Chapter 3: Writing with Light -- Chapter 4: Summits of Silver -- Chapter 5: The Man with the Oil-Can -- Chapter 6: The Evangelists -- Chapter 7: The Aristocrat and the Artisan -- Chapter 8: Passion Is Good, Obsession is Better -- Chapter 9: From Closet to Cosmos -- Chapter 10: Leaves of Glass -- Chapter 11: The Grandest Failure -- Chapter 12: An Uncivil War -- Chapter 13: The Odd Couple -- Chapter 14: What's My Line? -- Chapter 15: Laboratories of Light -- Chapter 16: Deconstructing the Sun -- Chapter 17: A Strange Cryptography -- Chapter 18: Trumpets and Telescopes -- Chapter 19: Burn This Note -- Chapter 20: A Spectacle of Suns -- Chapter 21: The Cloud That Wasn't There -- Chapter 22: The Union of Two Astronomies -- Chapter 23: Mr. Hale of Chicago -- Chapter 24: The Universe in the Mirror -- Chapter 25: Threads to a Web -- Chapter 26: Size Matters -- Chapter 27: A Night to Remember -- Chapter 28: Oculis Subjecta Fidelibus -- Epilogue -- References -- Time Line -- Glossary of Names -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Sources and Permissions -- Index.
Abstract:
A wondrous tale of cosmic exploration and the colorful characters who ushered astronomy into the modern age.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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