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050 00 $aQB981$b.F346 1999
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100 1 $aFerguson, Kitty.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91008369
245 10 $aMeasuring the universe :$bour historic quest to chart the horizons of space and time /$cKitty Ferguson.
260 $aNew York :$bWalker and Company,$c[1999], ©1999.
263 $a9908
300 $aviii, 342 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [317]-322) and index.
505 00 $tPrologue: Tilting with Windmills 1951[ --$gCh. 1.$tA Sphere with a View 400-100 B.C.[ --$gCh. 2.$tHeavenly Revolutions 100-1600 A.D.[ --$gCh. 3.$tDressing Up the Naked Eye 1564-1642[ --$gCh. 4.$tAn Orbit with a View 1630-1900[ --$gCh. 5.$tUpscale Architecture 1750-1958[ --$gCh. 6.$tComing Apart in All Directions 1929-92[ --$gCh. 7.$tDeciphering Ancient Light 1946-99[ --$gCh. 8.$tThe Quest for Omega 1930-99[ --$gCh. 9.$tLost Horizons --$tEpilogue: Magnificent Enigma.
520 $aMeasuring the Universe is an eloquent chronicle of the men and women - from Aristarchus to Cassini, Sir Isaac Newton to Henrietta Leavitt and Stephen Hawking - who have gradually unlocked the mysteries of "how far" and in so doing have changed our ideas about the size and nature of the universe and our place in it. Kitty Ferguson reveals their methods to have been as inventive as their results were - and are - eye-opening.
520 8 $aAdvances such as Copernicus's revolutionary insights about the arrangement of the solar system, William Herschel's meticulous creation of the first three-dimensional map of the universe, and Edwin Hubble's astonishing discovery that the universe is expanding have by turns revolutionized our concept of the universe. Connecting centuries of breakthroughs with the political and cultural events surrounding them, Ferguson makes astronomy part of the sweep of history.
650 0 $aCosmology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85033169
650 0 $aCosmological distances.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85033168
650 0 $aMeasurement.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083608
852 00 $boff,sci$hQB981$i.F346 1999