Seeing and Believing: How the Telescope Opened Our Eyes and Minds to the Heavens
A concise look at the impact of the advent of the telescope on the way humans view the universe and their place in it focuses on the visionaries, beginning with Galileo, who created and perfected it
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Writer/journalist Panek's dramatic history describes the wake of social upheaval, political controversy, and awe that trails the evolution of the telescope. He focuses on technological advances, cosmological superstars, such as Galileo, William Herschel, and George Ellery Hale, and the ways that the telescope has expanded our knowledge of the universe. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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