Measuring the Sky------The Journey of Humans Exploring the Boundaries of the Universe

Author: (USA) Gitty Ferguson; translated by Sun Hongtao, Yan Kailiang
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Publish Date: 2005-09-15
Features: The exploration of the Space Shuttle, the tenth planet in the solar system, embodies humanity's primal desire to measure the heavens. After reading this book, you might exclaim, "Why didn't I think of that!" Many of the methods we've invented to measure distances to unreachably distant regions are remarkably simple—only slightly more complex than measuring the length of Grandpa's windmill. But the proposal of these methods was so unimaginably brilliant! This book is a chronicle that records how, over the past two and a half thousand years, men and women have built the ladder of measurement from their doorsteps to the known boundaries of the universe. It also documents how this exploration has transformed our understanding of the shape, nature, and our place within the cosmos.