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The Astronomy Revolution: 400 Years of Exploring the Cosmos

By Donald G. York (Editor), Owen Gingerich (Editor), Shuang-Nan Zhang (Editor)
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$255.00
By Donald G. York (Editor), Owen Gingerich (Editor), Shuang-Nan Zhang (Editor)
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Some 400 years after the first known patent application for a telescope by Hans Lipperhey, The Astronomy Revolution: 400 Years of Exploring the Cosmos surveys the effects of this instrument and explores the questions that have arisen out of scientific research in astronomy and cosmology. Inspired by the international New Vision 400 conference held in Beijing in October 2008, this interdisciplinary volume brings together expanded and updated contributions from 26 esteemed conference speakers...

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