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Parallax

Parallax The Race to Measure the Cosmos

Paperback (01 May 2002)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Follows the nineteenth-century race to discover how to measure the distance to a star, profiling such contributors as a destitute boy who became a foremost telescope maker, a hot-tempered Dane who lost his nose in a mathematics duel, and a musician who discovered a planet from his backyard. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Book information

ISBN: 9780805071337
Publisher: Owl Books,U.S.
Imprint: Owl Books,U.S.
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 314
Weight: 340g
Height: 235mm
Width: 133mm
Spine width: 19mm