First Light: The Search for the Edge of the Universe

Richard Preston

ISBN 10: 0871132001 / ISBN 13: 9780871132000

Verlag: Atlantic Monthly Pr January 1987, 1987

Beschreibung

Stated first printing. First (blank) page inside book has been price clipped.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 188361

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: First Light: The Search for the Edge of the Universe
• Verlag: Atlantic Monthly Pr January 1987
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1987
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0871132001
• ISBN-13: 9780871132000
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: First Printing.
• Druck: First Printing
• Zustand: Collectible - Acceptable
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good
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Inhaltsangabe

First Light is perhaps the best book about astronomy ever written. It tells the story of the men and women at the Palomar Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains of California who peer through the amazing Hale Telescope at the farthest edges of space, attempting to solve the riddle of the beginning of time. "Science is a lot weirder and more human than most people realize," Preston writes in his foreword to this revised and updated edition of his first book, and he skillfully weaves together stories of the eccentricities of his characters and the technical wonders of their work to create a riveting narrative about what scientists do and why they do it.