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Starlight detectives : how astronomers, inventors, and eccentrics discovered the modern universe

NBC News ℗أTop Science and Tech Books of the Year" selection Scientific American /FSG ℗أFavorite Science Books of the Year" selection Nature.com ℗أTop Reads of the Year" selection Kirkus Reviews ℗أBest Books of the Year" selection Discover magazine ℗أTop 5 Summer Read" ℗أA masterful balance of science, history and rich narrative." ℗ا Discover magazine ℗أHirshfeld tells this climactic discovery of the expanding universe with great verve and sweep, as befits a story whose scope, characters and import leave
eBook, English, 2014
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Bellevue Literary Press, New York, 2014
History
1 online resource (399 pages) : illustrations, portraits
9781934137796, 1934137790
885012864
Print version:
Introduction
Part I: PICTURING THE HEAVENS
Ch. 1: True Eye and Faithful Hand
Ch. 2: The Ingenious Mechanic of Dorchester
Ch. 3: Writing with Light
Ch. 4: Summits of Silver
Ch. 5: The Man with the Oil-Can
Ch. 6: The Evangelists
Ch. 7: The Aristocrat and the Artisan
Ch. 8: Passion Is Good, Obsession is Better
Ch. 9: From Closet to Cosmos
Ch. 10: Leaves of Glass
Ch. 11: The Grandest Failure
Ch. 12: An Uncivil War. Part II: SEEING THE LIGHT
Ch. 13: The Odd Couple
Ch. 14: What's My Line?
Ch. 15: Laboratories of Light
Chapter 16: Deconstructing the Sun
Chapter 17: A Strange Cryptography
Ch. 18: Trumpets and Telescopes
Ch. 19: Burn This Note
Ch. 20: A Spectacle of Suns
Ch. 21: The Cloud That Wasn't There
Ch. 22: The Union of Two Astronomies. Part III: MONEY, MIRRORS, AND MADNESS
Ch. 23: Mr. Hale of Chicago
Ch. 24: The Universe in the Mirror
Ch. 25: Threads to a Web
Ch. 26: Size Matters
Ch. 27: A Night to Remember
Ch. 28: Oculis Subjecta Fidelibus
Epilogue
References
Appendices: Time Line
Glossary of Names