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100 1 _aFerguson, Kitty,
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aMeasuring the universe :
_bour historic quest to chart the horizons of space and time /
_cKitty Ferguson.
250 _a[First edition].
264 1 _aNew York :
_bWalker and Company,
_c1999.
300 _aviii, 342 pages :
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_c24 cm
336 _atext
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336 _astill image
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337 _aunmediated
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPrologue: 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.
520 _aA 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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650 0 _aCosmological distances.
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