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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. How do we measure what we cannot reach? From the cubits of Babylonian sky-watchers to the parsecs of modern cosmology, every astronomical unit tells a double story: of an instrument refined, and of a human mind expanding its grasp of the infinite. Measuring the Heavens traces the full arc o…f this enterprise across more than two thousand years. Beginning with the geometric ingenuity of Aristarchus and Eratosthenes, the book follows the slow, often contested emergence of the units that allowed humanity to chart the cosmos: the angular degree, the astronomical unit, the light-year, the parsec, the redshift, and finally the dimensionless ladders that today reach the edge of the observable universe. But this is not merely a history of numbers. Each unit is examined as a philosophical event - a moment in which human cognition redrew the boundary between what can be known directly and what must be inferred. From the parallax measurements of Bessel and Henderson to the standard candles of Leavitt and Hubble, from the Gaia mission to the metrological reforms of the IAU, the book argues that astronomical units are not passive tools but conceptual instruments that have shaped - and continue to shape - our understanding of space, distance, and reality itself. Drawing on primary sources in Latin, Greek, English, French, German, and Italian, and engaging with historians of science, metrologists, and philosophers of measurement, Measuring the Heavens offers nineteen chapters across six thematic parts, three technical appendices (including the original texts of the principal IAU resolutions), and a bibliography of nearly three hundred entries. A book for astronomers, historians of science, philosophers of measurement, and any reader who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered: how do we know how far? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
