[PDF.14uo] The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope

The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope

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 | #152395 in Books |  1995-08-04 |  1995-08-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x1.08 x5.31l,1.19 | File type: PDF | 451 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Big Science at it's most human-|By Jim Atkins|Florence captures the conflict between billionaires looking to polish their images, the scientists clamoring for the project to be competed, and the most interesting group of all, the engineers simply trying to build a machine utterly distinct from anything that had gone before. To use Tom Wolfe's phrase, they all collaborate to "pu| |"A superb history by a super writer and historian."-- Allan Sandage "Over to you, Pulitzer Prize Committee."-- Arthur C. Clarke|About the Author|Ronald Florence was educated at Berkeley and Harvard. The author of five prev

Almost a half-century after is completion, the 200-inch Palomar telescope remains an unparalleled combination of vast scale and microscope detail. As huge as the Pantheon of Rome and as heavy as the Statue of Liberty, this magnificent instrument is so precisely built that its seventeen-foot mirror was hand-polished to a tolerance of 2/1,000,000 of an inch. The telescope's construction drove some to the brink of madness, made others fearful that mortals might glimpse heav...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope   |  Ronald Florence. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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