Sky and Ocean Joined: The U.S. Naval Observatory 1830-2000
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As one of the oldest scientific institutions in the United States, the US Naval Observatory has a rich and colourful history. This volume is, first and foremost, a story of the relations between space, time and navigation, from the rise of the chronometer in the United States 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 will appeal to historians of science, technology, scientific institutions and American science, as well as astronomers, meteorologists and physicists.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521037506
ISBN13:9780521037501
Release Date:July 2007
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:624 Pages
Weight:2.16 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"
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