Seeing and Believing: The Story of the Telescope, or How We Found Our Place in the Universe
Author(s): Richard Panek
In 1609, Galileo fitted two lenses inside a cylindrical tube, aimed it at the sky and forever changed the world. Panek tells the story and details the character, discovery by discovery of the telescope, one of the few inventions that have revolutionised our view of the universe and how we fit in to it.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : HarperCollins Publishers
- : Fourth Estate Ltd
- : 0.15
- : 14 December 2000
- : 178mm X 111mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Richard Panek
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 522.209
- : 208
