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Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos

By Alan W. Hirshfeld
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By Alan W. Hirshfeld
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An astronomer charts the story of our quest to measure the distance to a star in this "delightful history of a crucial advance in knowledge" (Booklist).

Since the ancient Greeks, great scientific minds have attempted to determine the distance of stars using the principle of parallax: the apparent shift in an object's position when viewed from different vantage points. Not until the nineteenth century would three astronomers, armed with the best telescopes of the age, race to conquer this as...