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Measuring the universe : our historic quest to chart the horizons of space and time / Kitty Ferguson.

By:

Ferguson, Kitty [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Walker and Company, 1999Edition: [First edition]Description: viii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0802713513
9780802713513

Subject(s):

Contents:

Prologue: Tilting with windmills (1951) -- Sphere with a view (400-100 B.C.) -- Heavenly revolutions (100-1600 A.D.) -- Dressing up the naked eye (1564-1642) -- Orbit with a view (1630-1900) -- Upscale architecture (1750-1958) -- Coming apart in all directions (1929-92) -- Deciphering ancient light (1946-99) -- Quest for Omega (1930-99) -- Lost horizons -- Epilogue: Magnificent Enigma.

Summary: A veteran popularizer of science, Ferguson traces how people in western history have attempted to measure space from the ancient Greeks to modern physicists and astronomers. She begins with Eratosthenes' accurate measurement of the circumference of the Earth in the third century BC and progresses to the theories of Stephen Hawking and his contemporaries. Her account is for general readers. She includes a glossary that does not indicate pronunciation.

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Books	Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room	QB981 .F346 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31560000043758

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A veteran popularizer of science, Ferguson traces how people in western history have attempted to measure space from the ancient Greeks to modern physicists and astronomers. She begins with Eratosthenes' accurate measurement of the circumference of the Earth in the third century BC and progresses to the theories of Stephen Hawking and his contemporaries. Her account is for general readers. She includes a glossary that does not indicate pronunciation.

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Cosmology and measurement

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