Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the horizons of Space and Time
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780802713513 (0802713513)
Publish date: July 1st 1999
Publisher: Walker & Company
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Ferguson charts the history of measuring stuff in the sky from the ancients to the end of the 20th century. The viewpoint is always from the viewer of the time, making the interesting perspective of what was not known when the discoveries are made. The historical chapters concerning Ptolemy, Coperni...