First Light: The Search for the Edge of the Universe

Richard Preston

ISBN 10: 0871132001 / ISBN 13: 9780871132000

Editore: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1987

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Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2. Codice articolo G0871132001I3N10

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

Casa editrice: Atlantic Monthly Pr

Data di pubblicazione: 1987

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Good

Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket

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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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