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    Eyes on the sky : a spectrum of telescopes / Francis Graham-Smith.

    By: Graham-Smith, Francis, 1923- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: xv, 235 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780198734277; 0198734271Subject(s): Telescopes -- History | Telescopes | 39.12 astronomical instrumentsGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 522.2/09 LOC classification: QB88 | .G73 2016
    Contents:
    Galileo opens the sky -- The big reflecting telescopes -- New ways to build big telescopes -- Stretching the spectrum : infrared and ultraviolet telescopes -- Into space -- X-rays from space -- Gamma rays and cosmic rays -- The new radio window -- Pairs and arrays -- Millimetre waves and spectral lines -- Opening the cosmos -- Then, now, and tomorrow.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-230) and index.

    Galileo opens the sky -- The big reflecting telescopes -- New ways to build big telescopes -- Stretching the spectrum : infrared and ultraviolet telescopes -- Into space -- X-rays from space -- Gamma rays and cosmic rays -- The new radio window -- Pairs and arrays -- Millimetre waves and spectral lines -- Opening the cosmos -- Then, now, and tomorrow.

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