Starlight Detectives (eBook)

How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe

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2014
320 Seiten
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978-1-934137-79-6 (ISBN)

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Starlight Detectives - Alan Hirshfeld
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A wondrous tale of cosmic exploration and the colorful characters who ushered astronomy into the modern age

Julia Ward Howe Award Finalist NBC News Top Science and Tech Books of the Year selectionScientific American/FSG Favorite Science Books of the Year selectionNature.com Top Reads of the Year selectionKirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year selectionDiscover magazine Top 5 Summer ReadA masterful balance of science, history and rich narrative. Discover magazineHirshfeld tells this climactic discovery of the expanding universe with great verve and sweep, as befits a story whose scope, characters and import leave most fiction far behind. Wall Street JournalStarlight Detectives is just the sort of richly veined book I love to readfull of scientific history and discoveries, peopled by real heroes and rogues, and told with absolute authority. Alan Hirshfelds wide, deep knowledge of astronomy arises not only from the most careful scholarship, but also from the years hes spent at the telescope, posing his own questions to the stars. DAVA SOBEL, author of A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos and LongitudeIn 1929, Edwin Hubble announced the greatest discovery in the history of astronomy since Galileo first turned a telescope to the heavens. The galaxies, previously believed to float serenely in the void, are in fact hurtling apart at an incredible speed: the universe is expanding. This stunning discovery was the culmination of a decades-long arc of scientific and technical advancement. In its shadow lies an untold, yet equally fascinating, backstory whose cast of characters illuminates the gritty, hard-won nature of scientific progress.The path to a broader mode of cosmic observation was blazed by a cadre of nineteenth-century amateur astronomers and inventors, galvanized by the advent of photography, spectral analysis, and innovative technology to create the entirely new field of astrophysics. From William Bond, who turned his home into a functional observatory, to John and Henry Draper, a father and son team who were trailblazers of astrophotography and spectroscopy, to geniuses of invention such as Lon Foucault, and George Hale, who founded the Mount Wilson Observatory, Hirshfeld reveals the incredible storiesand the ambitious dreamersbehind the birth of modern astronomy.Alan Hirshfeld, Professor of Physics at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and an Associate of the Harvard College Observatory, is the author of Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos, The Electric Life of Michael Faraday, and Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes.

lt;div>Alan Hirshfeld, Professor of Physics at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and an Associate of the Harvard College Observatory, received his undergraduate degree in astrophysics from Princeton and his Ph.D. in astronomy from Yale. He is the author of Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos, The Electric Life of Michael Faraday, and Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes. He is a regular book reviewer for the Wall Street Journal and has contributed to Sky & Telescope, the American Journal of Physics, BBC History Magazine, and American Scientist. He has made radio and television appearances on NPR, PBS, and C-SPAN and lectures nationwide about science history and discovery.

Introduction

Prologue

Part I: Picturing the Heavens
1. Writing with Light
2. True Eye and Faithful Hand
3. The Ingenious Mechanic of Dorchester
4. Summits of Silver
5. The Man with the Oil-Can
6. The Evangelists
7. The Aristocrat and the Artisan
8. Passion is Good, Obsession is Better
9. From Closet to Cosmos
10. Leaves of Glass
11. The Grandest Failure
12. An Uncivil War

Part II: Seeing the Light
13. The Odd Couple
14. What’s My Line?
15. Laboratory of Light
16. Deconstructing the Sun
17. A Strange Cryptography
18. Trumpets and Telescopes
19. Burn This Note
20. A Spectacle of Suns
21. The Cloud That Wasn’t There
22. The Union of Two Astronomies

Part III: Money, Mirrors, and Madness
23. Mr. Hale of Chicago
24. The Universe in the Mirror
25. Threads to a Web

Part IV: Expanding Horizons
26. Size Matters
27. A Night to Remember
28. Oculis subjecta fidelibus

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.6.2014
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Weltraum / Astronomie
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Technikgeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
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ISBN-10 1-934137-79-0 / 1934137790
ISBN-13 978-1-934137-79-6 / 9781934137796
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