Solar System Astronomy in America: Communities, Patronage, and Interdisciplinary Science, 1920-1960 - Softcover
Synopsis
This is a facsimile reprint of the original book by Ronald Edmund Doel, rebuilt using the latest technology. There are no poor, missing or blurred pages and all photographic images have been professionally restored. At Yokai Publishing we believe that by restoring this title to print it will live on for generations to come.
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Review
'Ronald Doel's superb book challenges the thesis that American scientists neglected the solar system in the four decades preceding NASA's founding.' Karl Hufbauer, Science
'Interdisciplinary cooperation ... has a profound effect on science and the scientist ... the author draws on unpublished archive material to understand the controversies ... The reader will probably enjoy the conflict of opinion ... the book is well illustrated with photographs and we notice that most of the astronomers (and also the rest) are smiling!' Irish Astronomical Journal
'Doel has written an excellent account of this mostly-forgotten development, and he has helped us to understand the crucial background of the achievement of the Space Age.' Journal for the History of Astronomy
From the Author
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A review by Karl Hufbauer (U.C. Irvine) of _Solar System Astronomy in America_ appeared in _Science_, Aug. 2, 1996, pp. 608-9. Those intrigued by the cover photograph on this book (by Gary Braasch) may wish to check out his published collections of photographs, including _Patterns of Nature_, available through this service.
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