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Parallax : The Race to Measure the Cosmos
Parallax The Race to Measure the Cosmos
Author: Alan W. Hirshfeld
In the dramatic tradition of the best-selling Longitude, Parallax charts the historical path of observational astronomy’s most daunting challenge: measuring the distance to a star. — The greatest scientific minds applied themselves in vain to the problem across the millennia, beginning with the ancient Greeks. Not until the nineteent...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780716737117
ISBN-10: 0716737116
Publication Date: 5/1/2001
Pages: 336
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Publisher: W. H. Freeman
Book Type: Hardcover
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