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SKY AND OCEAN JOINED
THE U. S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY 1830-2000 |
| By: |
Steven J. Dick |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£95.99 |
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£83.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521037506 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521037501 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
23 April, 2007 |
| Pages: |
624 |
| Description: |
A colourful history of 170 years of scientific discovery at the United States Naval Observatory. |
| Synopsis: |
As one of the oldest scientific institutions in the United States, the US Naval Observatory has a rich and colourful history. This volume is, first and foremost, a story of the relations between space, time and navigation, from the rise of the chronometer in the United States to the Global Positioning System of satellites, for which the Naval Observatory provides the time to a billionth of a second per day. It is a story of the history of technology, in the form of telescopes, lenses, detectors, calculators, clocks and computers over 170 years. It describes how one scientific institution under government and military patronage has contributed, through all the vagaries of history, to almost two centuries of unparalleled progress in astronomy. Sky and Ocean Joined will appeal to historians of science, technology, scientific institutions and American science, as well as astronomers, meteorologists and physicists. |
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223 b/w illus. 31 tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Society for History in the Federal Government George Pendleton |
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