Sky and Ocean Joined (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521815994)

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.

Author: Steven J. Dick
ISBN-10: 0521815991
ISBN-13: 9780521815994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/24/2002
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.19lbs
Size: 9.50h x 7.74w x 1.35d