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Eyes on the Universe

Eyes on the Universe

The Story of the Telescope

by Patrick Moore
Paperback
Publication Date: 25/04/1997

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This is an illustrated history of the telescope, beginning with pre-telescopic observatories and the refractors of Galileo, Lippershey and Digges, and ending with the most modern instruments including the Hubble Space Telescope. It was written to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the television programme, "The Sky at Night". It provides its readers with an overview of the way astronomical telescopes have evolved with technology during the past 450 years.
ISBN:
9783540761648
9783540761648
Category:
Popular astronomy & space
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
25-04-1997
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Country of origin:
Germany
Pages:
120
Dimensions (mm):
235x155x8mm
Weight:
0.26kg
Patrick Moore

Sir Patrick Moore is best remembered as the presenter of the world's longest running television programme - BBC TV'sThe Sky at Night - which was first broadcast in 1957. He is the author of more than 80 books, and has played a unique role in astronomy education and popularizing science through six decades. He was knighted in 2001, the same year he was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2002 Buzz Aldrin presented him with a BAFTA award for services to television. He passed in 2012 and the Science Museum acquired a large collection of his objects and papers.

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