Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos by Alan W. Hirshfeld

Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos

Alan W. Hirshfeld

336 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous challenging informative fast-paced
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How can we measure the distance to a star? Beginning in ancient Greece, history's greatest scientific minds applied themselves to the problem in vain. Not until the nineteenth century would three men, armed with the best telescopes of their age, r...

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