Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 348 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9781108655088
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1108655084
Content:
The search -- Discoveries -- Observation -- Detection, recognition, and classification of cosmic phenomena -- The fringes of legitimacy : the need for enlightened planning
Content:
Martin Harwit's influential book, Cosmic Discovery, is rereleased after more than thirty-five years, with a new preface written by the author. The work chronicles the astronomical discoveries up to the late twentieth century and draws conclusions that major discoveries have often been unexpected, unrelated to prevailing astronomical theories and made by outsiders from other fields. One trend alone seems to prevail: major discoveries follow major technological innovations in observational instruments. The author also examines discovery in terms of its political, financial, and sociological contexts, including the role of industry and the military in enabling new technologies, and methods of funding. The challenges encountered by astronomy in the 1980s are remarkably similar to those astronomers face today. Difficulties persist in controlling recurrent cost overruns on planned missions, and in confronting mounting costs in developing observatories for detecting gravitational waves, high-energy cosmic rays, and particles that might explain dark matter
Note:
Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1981
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1108722040
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108722049
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Harwit, Martin, 1931 - Cosmic discovery Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ISBN 1108722040
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108722049
Language:
English
Subjects:
Physics
Keywords:
Astronomie
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Geschichte
DOI:
10.1017/9781108655088
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Author information:
Harwit, Martin 1931-
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