Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time - Hardcover

Ferguson, Kitty

 
9780802713513: Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time

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Presents an incisive narrative of the men and women, from Aristarchus and Cassini, to Sir Isaac Newton and Henrietta Leavitt, who have unlocked the mysteries of "how far" and in doing so changed our ideas about the size and nature of the universe, as well as the part we play in it.

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Kitty Ferguson is a science writer and the author of Prisons of Light: Black Holes; The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God; and Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything. She is also a professional musician. Ms. Ferguson lives in Northern New Jersey.

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ISBN 10:  0802775926 ISBN 13:  9780802775924
Verlag: Walker & Co, 2000
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