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UNINA9910465307003321 |
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Graham-Smith Francis <1923-> |
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Eyes on the sky : a spectrum of telescopes / / Francis Graham-Smith |
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Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (252 p.) |
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Telescopes - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Eyes on the Sky: A Spectrum of Telescopes; Copyright; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; 1: Galileo Opens the Sky; The First Telescope; The Moons of Jupiter; The Next Moves: Kepler; Gregory, Newton, and Herschel; The New Windows; 2: The Big Reflecting Telescopes; Photography; Splitting the Spectrum; Mounting the Monsters; Covering the Sky: the Palomar Schmidt; Bigger and Better; 3: New Ways to Build Big Telescopes; The Altazimuth Mount and Computer Control; Thin Mirrors; Segmented Mirrors; Sharpening the Image; The Big Surveys; The Next Generation |
4: Stretching the Spectrum: Infrared and Ultraviolet TelescopesPhotons and Waves; Photons and Electrons; Arrays and CCDs; The Troublesome Atmosphere; Telescopes for the Infrared; VISTA: a Joint Venture; Putting It All Together; The Infrared Sky; Shorter Wavelengths: the Ultraviolet; 5: Into Space; Rocket Science; The Ultraviolet Sky; The Hubble Space Telescope; The James Webb Space Telescope; IRAS, ISO, Spitzer, Akari, and WISE; Herschel in Orbit; Hipparcos and Gaia; Hunting for Planets; 6: X-Rays from Space; The First Surprises; Honeycombs, Pinholes, and Shadows; X-Ray Mirrors |
Chandra and XMM-NewtonThe X-Ray Sky; Swift; X-Ray Prospects: ATHENA; 7: Gamma Rays and Cosmic Rays; Waves and Photons; Gamma-Ray Bursts; AGILE and the Fermi LAT; Picking up the Pulses; Cosmic Rays; Air Showers; Cherenkov Radiation: the Blue Glow; The Flyś Eye; Sorting Out the Showers; 8: The New Radio Window; Radio from |
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the Sky; The First Steerable Dish; Spin-Off from World War II; The Big Dishes at Jodrell Bank; The Big Dish at Parkes; Bigger and Better Dishes; Dishes Looking Upwards; The Biggest Dish; 9: Pairs and Arrays; Michelsonś Interferometer; Analysis and Synthesis |
The Cambridge One Mile TelescopeThe Very Large Array; Longer and Longer Baselines; Making the Connection; Into Space with VLBI; 10: Millimetre Waves and Spectral Lines; The Hydrogen and Hydroxyl Lines; More and More Molecules; Millimetre-Wave Telescopes; ALMA; The Gravitational Lens; Herschel and the Infrared; 11: Opening the Cosmos; The Distant Nebulae; Further Back in Time; The Discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background; The Early Universe: Ripples in the Cosmos; The Fine Structure; Planck: the Supreme Cosmology Spacecraft; Polarization; The Theory of the Cosmos, and Two Puzzles |
The Young Universe DevelopsWhere Next with Cosmology?; 12: Then, Now, and Tomorrow; The Major Telescopes Today; Multibeam Synthesis; Projects and Prospects; The Square Kilometre Array; Astronomy Transformed; Notes; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter10; Chapter11; Further Reading; Index |
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Astronomy is experiencing a golden age, with a new generation of innovative telescopes yielding a flood of information on the Universe. This book traces the development of telescopes from Galileo to the present day, and explains the basic principles of telescopes that operate in different parts of electromagnetic spectrum. |
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UNINA9910479897403321 |
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Autore |
Klugman Matthew |
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Black and proud : the story of an iconic AFL photo / / Matthew Klugman and Gary Osmond |
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Sydney, New South Wales : , : NewSouth, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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1-74224-166-2 |
1-74224-667-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Discrimination in sports - Australia |
Football fans - Social aspects - Australia |
Race discrimination - Australia |
Australian football - Tournaments |
Athletes, Aboriginal Australian |
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CONTENTS; PROLOGUE; 1. Agitating for change; 2. Growing up in different Australias; 3. Formative moments; 4. Rising concerns; 5. The match; 6. The gesture and the photos; 7. The response; 8. The next step; 9. The life and burdens of an iconic image; EPILOGUE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; IMAGE CREDITS; Index |
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It is one of Australia's most iconic images. On 17 April 1993, the Indigenous AFL footballer Nicky Winmar stood up against racial abuse and made history. Facing the Collingwood crowd that had taunted him all day the St Kilda player pulled up his shirt, pointed to his chest and declared: 'I'm black and I'm proud to be black'. Published the next day, the photos of Winmar's gesture sparked an intense debate that forced the AFL, the fans and the nation to confront their prejudices head-on. Black and Proud takes us behind the searing image to the stories of those who made it happen - the Indigenous |
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