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Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
W H Freeman & Co
Publication date
April 1, 2001
Pages
314
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780716737117
ISBN-10
0716737116
Dimensions
1.25 by 6 by 9.75 in.
Weight
1.25 lbs.
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Out of Print
Original list price
$23.95
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Hardcover
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from W H Freeman & Co (April 1, 2001)
9780716737117 | details & prices | 314 pages | 6.00 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $23.95
Paperback
Rev upd edition from Dover Pubns (September 19, 2013)
9780486490939 | details & prices | 316 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.94 lbs | List price $19.95
Reprint edition from Henry Holt & Co (May 1, 2002)
9780805071337 | details & prices | 5.25 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $16.00
About: Follows the nineteenth-century race to discover how to measure the distance to a star, profiling such contributors as a destitute boy who became a foremost telescope maker, a hot-tempered Dane who lost his nose in a mathematics duel, and a musician who discovered a planet from his backyard.
About: Follows the nineteenth-century race to discover how to measure the distance to a star, profiling such contributors as a destitute boy who became a foremost telescope maker, a hot-tempered Dane who lost his nose in a mathematics duel, and a musician who discovered a planet from his backyard.
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