First Light: The Search for the Edge of the Universe Preston, Richard

First Light: The Search for the Edge of the Universe Preston, Richard

ISBN 10: 0679449698 / ISBN 13: 9780679449690

Editore: Random House, 1996

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Titolo: First Light: The Search for the Edge of the ...

Casa editrice: Random House

Data di pubblicazione: 1996

Legatura: Rilegato

Condizione: New

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First Light is perhaps the best book about astronomy ever written. It tells the story of the men and women at the Palomar Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains of California who peer through the amazing Hale Telescope at the farthest edges of space, attempting to solve the riddle of the beginning of time. "Science is a lot weirder and more human than most people realize," Preston writes in his foreword to this revised and updated edition of his first book, and he skillfully weaves together stories of the eccentricities of his characters and the technical wonders of their work to create a riveting narrative about what scientists do and why they do it.

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Richard Preston received The Overseas Press Club of America's 1995 Whitman Bassow Award for "best reporting in any medium on environmental issues" for The Hot Zone. First Light, Preston's first book, won the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. Preston lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife and children.