Sky and Ocean Joined: The US Naval Observatory 1830-2000

This volume is, first and foremost, a story of the relations between space, time and navigation, from...
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Author: Steven J. Dick
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Sky and Ocean Joined: The US Naval Observatory 1830-2000 by Dick, Steven J.

Sky and Ocean Joined: The US Naval Observatory 1830-2000

$381.85

Sky and Ocean Joined: The US Naval Observatory 1830-2000

$381.85
Author: Steven J. Dick
Format: Paperback
Language: English
This volume is, first and foremost, a story of the relations between space, time and navigation, from the rise of the chronometer in the U.S. to the Global Positioning System of satellites, for which the Naval Observatory provides the time to a billionth of a second per day. It is a story of the history of technology, in the form of telescopes, lenses, detectors, calculators, clocks and computers over 170 years. It describes how one scientific institution under government and military patronage has contributed, through all the vagaries of history, to almost two centuries of unparalleled progress in astronomy.

Author: Steven J. Dick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/02/2007
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.16lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.26d
ISBN: 9780521037501

About the Author
Dick, Steven J.: - Steven J. Dick has worked as an astronomer and historian of science at the US Naval Observatory since 1979.

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