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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 522.1973
EAN num: 9780521037501
ISBN number: 0521037506
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 623
Printing Date: July 02, 2007
Publishing house: Cambridge University Press
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Studio: Cambridge University Press
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This volume is, very 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.
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This is a masterful compilation of the history of the oldest scientific institution of the United States. The perspectives of Dr. Dick were thoughtful and very interesting. Many of the realtionships of the past half century were interesting when viewed from the point of view of today. Many decisions made during the reviewer's tenure at this institution did not strike one at the time as being made with a lot of consideration. From Dr. Dick's review many of them now make a lot more sense in the context of history. They were made by people who had a lot of expertise and a great deal of vision.
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