Sky and Ocean Joined: The U. S. Naval Observatory 1830 2000 - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9780521037501ISBN-10:521037506UPC:9780521037501Book Category:Science, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:History, Space ScienceBook Topic:AstronomySize:9.61 x 6.69 x 1.26 inchesWeight:2.1627Product ID:SCF0P1EXD4
This volume is, 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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9780521037501ISBN-10:521037506UPC:9780521037501Book Category:Science, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:History, Space ScienceBook Topic:AstronomySize:9.61 x 6.69 x 1.26 inchesWeight:2.1627Product ID:SCF0P1EXD4
Dick, Steven J.: - Steven J. Dick has worked as an astronomer and historian of science at the US Naval Observatory since 1979.
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