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Parallax : the race to measure the cosmos
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Parallax : the race to measure the cosmos

by Alan Hirshfeld

This history chronicles the centuries-long scientific quest to measure the distance to the stars. It traces the efforts of astronomers from antiquity to the nineteenth-century race to calculate parallax using advanced telescopic technology.

Accession 5680 ISBN 0716737116 Publisher W. H. Freeman & Co.
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