Part 1 Reinventing the Cosmos The Circle Game What if the Sun be Centre to the World? Crossed Eyes and Wobbling Stars Part 2 The Heavens Erupt The Turbulent Lens The Wrangler of Pisa The Archimedean Engine A Coal Cellar with a View Double Vision Part 3 Dismal Swamp The Twice-Built Telescope Quest for Precision So Many Grasshoppers The Star in the Lyre The Subtle Weave Index
ALAN W. HIRSHFELD, astronomer at the University of Massachusetts.
"A thrilling detective story!"
--Owen Gingerich, Research Professor of Astronomy and the History
of Science, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
"A wonderfully told story of the challenge of measuring our place
in the universe. It reaches the stars and the ride is exciting and
irresistible."
--Margaret J. Geller, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
"One of the great stories of scientific history . . . Hirshfeld
sheds light on the important problem of finding our cosmic
place."
--David H. Levy, Science Editor, "Parade," and discoverer of 21
comets
"Alan Hirshfeld's authoritative and gripping tale of the search for
stellar parallax makes me proud to be a part of such a relentlessly
curious and persistent species."
--Chet Raymo, columnist, "Boston Globe," author of "365 Starry
Nights" and professor of physics and astronomy at Stonehill College
in North Easton, Massachusetts
"An excellent book. I'm sure it will be of great value to many
readers."
--Sir Patrick Moore, host of the BBC's "The Sky at Night"
"Alan Hirshfeld has done for the measurement of the cosmos what
Dava Sobel did for the measurement of longitude. Readers will never
again look into the night sky the same way."
--Michael Shermer, Publisher, "Skeptic "magazine, author of "How We
Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science"
"Alan Hirshfeld has done a magnificent job, in keeping with the
best tradition of astronomical history."
--Leif J. Robinson, Editor Emeritus, "Sky & Telescope"
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