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Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos by Hirshfeld, Alan W - 2001
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: W H Freeman & Co, 2001 Charts the historical path of observational astronomy's most daunting challenge: measuring the distance to a star. The greatest scientific minds applied themselves in vain to the problem across the millennia, beginning with the ancient Greeks. Not until the 19th century would three astronomers, armed with the best telescopes of the age, race to conquer this astronomical Everest--their contest ending in a virtual dead heat. Against a sweeping backdrop filled with kidnappings, dramatic rescue, swordplay, madness, and bitter rivalry, astrophysicist Hirshfeld brings this remarkable story to life. Meet the destitute boy plucked from a collapsed building who becomes the greatest telescope maker the world has ever seen; the hot-tempered Dane whose nose is lopped off in a duel over mathematics; the merchant's apprentice forced to choose between the lure of money and his passion for astronomy; and the musician who discovers a new planet from his own backyard.--From publisher description.
xiii, 314 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Reinventing the cosmos --
Circle game --
What if the sun be center to the world? --
Crossed eyes and wobbling stars --
Heavens erupt --
Turbulent lens --
Wrangler of Pisa --
Archimedean engine --
Coal cellar with the view --
Double vision --
Dismal swamp --
Twice-built telescope --
Quest for precision --
So many grasshoppers --
Star in the lyre --
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