Book ID: CBB000831282

The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It (2008)

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Zimmermann, Robert (Author)


Princeton University Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: xv + 287 pp.; plates; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Authors & Contributors
Kessler, Elizabeth A.
Sullivan, Kathryn D.
Michele Ostovar
Zuidervaart, Huibert Jan
Wielebinski, Richard
Steinberg, Jean-Louis
Journals
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Public Understanding of Science
Dædalus
Archief: Mededelingen van het Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen
Publishers
University of Minnesota Press
University of Arizona Press
The MIT Press
Princeton University Press
Praxis
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Astronomy
Telescopes
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Cosmology
Space research and exploration
Visual representation; visual communication
People
Peurbach, Georg von
Hubble, Edwin Powell
Rheticus, Georg Joachim
Regiomontanus
Nunes, Pedro
Kepler, Johannes
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
Early modern
Renaissance
19th century
Places
United States
Puerto Rico
Prague (Czechia)
Germany
France
Institutions
Hubble Space Telescope
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (U.S.)
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