Starlight Detectives: How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe by Alan W. Hirshfeld

Starlight Detectives: How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe

Alan W. Hirshfeld

400 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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“With this highly readable and cosmically accessible book, 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.” —MICHA...

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