The great Melbourne telescope:
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gillespie, R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Melbourne Museum Victoria 2011
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Online Access:FAW01
FAW02
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-170) and index
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
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
Physical Description:188 pages
ISBN:9781921833311
1921833319
9781921833052
192183305X

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