Stairway to the Stars: The Story of the World's Largest Observatory

ISBN-13: 9780306447631 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 350 str.

Barry Parker

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The author combines "the history of Mauna Kea, the Hawaiian 13,795-foot-high site of nine telescopes, with vignettes of the astronomers who work there...Stories concerning political, environmental, and scientific battles are ...[included with] descriptions of telescope construction and use. " (Choice).