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An acre of glass : a history and forecast of the telescope / J.B. Zirker.
Author
Zirker, Jack B.
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Language
English
Published/Created
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Description
343 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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JSE 06-325
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Telescopes
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History
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Includes index.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The first three hundred years
The age of Hale
New windows on the universe
The rise of the great centers
The Hubble Space Telescope
A mirror in many pieces
Spinning glass
A profusion of telescopes
Beating the seeing
The astronomer's microscope
Toward the ever-receding horizon
The future in space.
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ISBN
0801882346 (acid-free paper)
LCCN
2005007786
OCLC
58546337
RCP
N - S
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