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The Perfect Machine: The Building the Palomar Telescope
The Perfect Machine The Building the Palomar Telescope
Author: Ronald Florence
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 Patheon 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 o...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060182052
ISBN-10: 0060182059
Publication Date: 9/1994
Pages: 451
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Publisher: Harpercollins
Book Type: Hardcover
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