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The great Melbourne telescope [[electronic resource] /] / Richard Gillespie



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Autore: Gillespie R (Richard) Visualizza persona
Titolo: The great Melbourne telescope [[electronic resource] /] / Richard Gillespie Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Melbourne, : Museum Victoria, 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 p.)
Disciplina: 522
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Soggetto topico: Telescopes - Australia - Melbourne (Vic.) - History
Astronomers - Australia - Melbourne (Vic.) - History
Astronomy - Australia - Melbourne (Vic.) - History
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-170) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; CHAPTER ONE The Southern Telescope; CHAPTER TWO This Noble Object; CHAPTER THREE Engineering Masterpiece; CHAPTER FOUR Controversy; CHAPTER FIVE The Telescope at Work; CHAPTER SIX The Telescope in the City; CHAPTER SEVEN Rebirth; TELESCOPE TYPES; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Notes; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Erected at Melbourne Observatory in 1869, the telescope was the second largest in the world, designed to explore the nature of the nebulae in the southern skies. Richard Gillespie, head of the History and Technology department at the Melbourne museum has written an entertaining account of the telescope's extraordinary history and tells the story through an amazing cast of characters whose lives intersected with the telescope.
Titolo autorizzato: The great Melbourne telescope  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-921833-31-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910463191003321
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