Seeing and Believing: A Short History of the Telescope and How we Look at the Universe by Richard Panek

Seeing and Believing: A Short History of the Telescope and How we Look at the Universe

Richard Panek

208 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced

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"Seeing and Believing" tells the story, visionary by visionary and discovery by discovery, of the telescope, one of the few inventions that have revolutionized our view of the universe and how we fit into it. In the tradition of Dava Sobel's "Long...

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