[PDF.17fw] Sky and Ocean Joined: The US Naval Observatory 1830-2000

Sky and Ocean Joined: The US Naval Observatory 1830-2000

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 | #6091766 in Books |  2007-07-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.72 x1.26 x6.85l,2.16 | File type: PDF | 624 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Must read as an astronomer|By Douglas A. O'HANDLEY|This is a masterful compilation of the history of the oldest scientific institution of the United States. The perspectives of Dr. Dick were thoughtful and very interesting. Many of the realtionships of the past half century were interesting when viewed from the point of view of today. Many decisions made during the reviewer's t| |"...an historical tour-de-force, and I thoroughly recommend it to everyone interested in U.S. astronomical history, positional astronomy, national observatories, naval history, navigation, time-keeping, or the conflict involving civilian and military control o

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 governmen...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Sky and Ocean Joined: The US Naval Observatory 1830-2000   |  Steven J. Dick. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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