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Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos
Parallax The Race to Measure the Cosmos
Author: Alan W. Hirshfeld
How can we measure the distance to a star? Beginning in ancient Greece, history's greatest scientific minds applied themselves to the problem in vain. Not until the nineteenth century would three men, armed with the best telescopes of their age, race to conquer this astronomical Everest. Parallax tells the fast-moving story of their conte...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780805071337
ISBN-10: 0805071334
Publication Date: 5/1/2002
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Owl Books
Book Type: Paperback
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