Sky and Ocean Joined
The U. S. Naval Observatory 1830 2000
As one of the oldest scientific institutions in the United States, the U.S. Naval Observatory has a rich and colourful history. This volume is, first and foremost, a story of the relations between space, time and navigation, from the rise of the chronometer in the United States 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 contribut…
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- ISBN: 978-0-521-03750-1
- EAN: 9780521037501
- Produktnummer: 2917687
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 624 S.
- Masse: H24.4 cm x B17.0 cm x D3.3 cm 1'060 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 1060
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