Stairway to the Stars

The Story of the World’s Largest Observatory

Barry R. Parker (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

350 Seiten

1994 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-306-44763-1 (ISBN)

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The author combines "the history of Mauna Kea, the Hawaiian 13,795-foot-high site of nine telescopes, with vignettes of the astronomers who work there...Stories concerning political, environmental, and scientific battles are ...[included with] descriptions of telescope construction and use. " (Choice).

Zusatzinfo	116 Illustrations, black and white; X, 350 p. 116 illus.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	0-306-44763-0 / 0306447630
ISBN-13	978-0-306-44763-1 / 9780306447631
Zustand	Neuware