First Light: The Search for the Edge of the Universe

Richard Preston

ISBN 10: 0871132001 / ISBN 13: 9780871132000

Edité par Atlantic Monthly Pr January 1987, 1987

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Stated first printing. First (blank) page inside book has been price clipped.

N° de réf. du vendeur 188361

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: First Light: The Search for the Edge of the Universe
• Éditeur: Atlantic Monthly Pr January 1987
• Date de parution: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0871132001
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780871132000
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Printing.
• État de l'article: Collectible - Acceptable
• État de la jaquette: Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Science

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Synopsis

Book by Preston Richard

Présentation de l'éditeur

Seven years before Richard Preston wrote about horrifying viruses in The Hot Zone, he turned his attention to the cosmos. In First Light, he demonstrates his gift for creating an exciting and absorbing narrative around a complex scientific subject--in this case the efforts by astronomers at the Palomar Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains of California to peer to the farthest edges of space through the Hale Telescope, attempting to solve the riddle of the creation of the universe.

Richard Preston's name became a household word with The Hot Zone, which sold nearly 800,000 copies in hardcover, was on The New York Times's bestseller list for 42 weeks, and was the subject of countless magazine and newspaper articles. Preston has become a sought-after commentator on popular science subjects.

For this hardcover reprint of what has been called "the best popular account of astronomy in action," ( Kirkus Reviews) he has revised the text and written a new introduction.