Ripples in the cosmos : a view behind the scenes of the new cosmology / Michael Rowan-Robinson.
Ripples in the cosmos : a view behind the scenes of the new cosmology / Michael Rowan-Robinson.
Ripples in the cosmos : a view behind the scenes of the new cosmology / Michael Rowan-Robinson.
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Oxford [England] ; New York : W.H. Freeman Spektrum, c1993.
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T0393601
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English
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224 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. Prologue -- 2. The lure of number -- 3. Thirty years of the new astronomy -- 4. Hubble's law, the cosmological distance ladder and the Big Bang -- 5. The years of building IRAS -- 6. First view of the far infrared sky -- 7. Discovering the power of IRAS -- 8. The microwave background story -- 9....
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Publisher
Oxford [England] ; New York : W.H. Freeman Spektrum, c1993.
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England
Date Published
c1993.
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Ripples in the cosmos : a view behind the scenes of the new cosmology / Michael Rowan-Robinson.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-214) and index.
Transferred from N523.1/112.
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c1993.
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T0393601
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74VKO0AoBdlM
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0716745038 :
9780716745037 :
DDC
523.1
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991022630849702626
