The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope – A Poignant Chronicle of Big Science Born in Depression-Era America - Couverture souple

Florence, Ronald

 
9780060926700: The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope – A Poignant Chronicle of Big Science Born in Depression-Era America
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ISBN 10 : 0060926708 ISBN 13 : 9780060926700
Editeur : Harper Perennial, 1995

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

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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Éditeur
Harper Perennial
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0060926708
ISBN 13 
9780060926700
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
480
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0060182059 ISBN 13 :  9780060182052
Editeur : Harpercollins, 1994
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