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The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope
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The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope

by Ronald Florence

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Paperback · 480 pages HarperCollins · 1995

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The Perfect Machine

Almost a half-century after is completion, the 200-inch Palomar telescope remains an unparalleled combination of vast scale and microscope detail. As huge as the Pantheon of Rome and as heavy as the Statue of Liberty, this magnificent instrument is so precisely built that its seventeen-foot mirror was hand-polished to a tolerance of 2/1,000,000 of an inch. The telescope's construction drove some to the brink of madness, made others fearful that mortals might glimpse heaven, and transfixed an entire nation. Ronald Florence weaves into his account of the creation of "the perfect machine" a stirring chronicle of the birth of Big Science and a poignant rendering of an America mired in the depression yet reaching for the stars.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
Author
Ronald Florence
Format
Paperback
Published
Aug 4, 1995
Pages
480
ISBN-13
9780060926700
ISBN-10
0060926708
Carton quantity
32 copies
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