Seeing And Believing: How the Telescope Opened Our Eyes And Minds to the Heavens - Hardcover

Panek, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670876283 ISBN 13: 9780670876280

Publisher: Viking, 1998

Synopsis

"Seeing and Believing" tells the story, visionary by visionary and discovery by discovery, of the telescope, one of the few inventions that have revolutionized our view of the universe and how we fit into it. In the tradition of Dava Sobel's "Longitude," "Seeing and Believing" focuses on the often larger-than-life figures whose insights and breakthroughs made our cosmological odyssey possible - from Galileo himself to William Herschel, the musician-turned-astronomer who discovered Uranus, to George Ellery Hale, who regularly conversed with an elf yet managed nonetheless to found both the Mount Wilson and Mount Palomar observatories. But the most fascinating character of all is the telescope itself, which, designed solely to help us determine our place in the scheme of things, is an evolving metaphor for how we see ourselves.

About this title

Synopsis:

A concise look at the impact of the advent of the telescope on the way humans view the universe and their place in it focuses on the visionaries, beginning with Galileo, who created and perfected it.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0670876283
• ISBN 13: 9780670876280
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208