Sky and Ocean Joined: The U.S. Naval Observatory 1830-2000
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'... easy reading. It is well-illustrated and well-referenced ... an historical tour-de-force, and I thoroughly recommend it to everyone interested in US astronomical history ...'. Journal of Astronomical History & Heritage
'There is no space to pull out more from Dick's fascinating and readable official history of the USNO, but I can thoroughly recommend it to anyone with an interest in time, navigation and their links to astronomy.' Astronomy
'... a fascinating and well written story ...'. The Naval War College Review
Book Description
This volume is, first and foremost, a story of the relations between space, time and navigation, from the rise of the chronometer in the U.S. to the Global Positioning System of satellites, for which the Naval Observatory provides the time to a billionth of a second per day. It is a story of the history of technology, in the form of telescopes, lenses, detectors, calculators, clocks and computers over 170 years. It describes how one scientific institution under government and military patronage has contributed, through all the vagaries of history, to almost two centuries of unparalleled progress in astronomy.
Sky and Ocean Joined: The U.S. Naval Observatory 1830-2000
Sky and Ocean Joined: The U.S. Naval Observatory 1830-2000,Steven J. Dick,Cambridge University Press,0521815991,19th century,20th century,Astronomy,Astronomy - General,History,Physics,Science,Science/Mathematics,Star Observation,United States,United States Naval Observator,United States Naval Observatory,War & Military,Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment & methods,History of science,Science / Astronomy,USA
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