Book ID: CBB000101887

New Cosmic Horizons: Space Astronomy from the V2 to the Hubble Space Telescope (2000)

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Leverington, David (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: xii + 507 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

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Review Krige, John (2002) Review of "New Cosmic Horizons: Space Astronomy from the V2 to the Hubble Space Telescope". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Smith, Robert William
DeVorkin, David H.
Sullivan, Kathryn D.
Lupieri, Edmondo
Burnell, Jocelyn Bell
Gangopadhyaya, Asim
Journals
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Physics in Perspective
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Publishers
Edizioni di Pagina
Princeton University Press
Pavia University Press
Westview Press
W. W. Norton & Co.
The MIT Press
Concepts
Astronomy
Cosmology
Telescopes
Physics
Space
Astrophysics
People
Galilei, Galileo
Schwarzschild, Martin
Hubble, Edwin Powell
Zwicky, Fritz
Spitzer, Lyman
Sitter, Willem de
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
17th century
19th century
16th century
Places
Italy
Europe
United States
Institutions
Hubble Space Telescope
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mount Wilson Observatory
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