Alan Hirshfeld, Professor of Physics at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and an Associate of the Harvard College Observatory, received his undergraduate degree in astrophysics from Princeton and his Ph.D. in astronomy from Yale. He is the author of Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos, The Electric Life of Michael Faraday, and Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes. He is a regular book reviewer for the Wall Street Journal and has contributed to Sky & Telescope, the American Journal of Physics, BBC History Magazine, and American Scientist. He has made radio and television appearances on NPR, PBS, and C-SPAN and lectures nationwide about science history and discovery.
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Introduction Prologue Part I: Picturing the Heavens 1. Writing with Light 2. True Eye and Faithful Hand 3. The Ingenious Mechanic of Dorchester 4. Summits of Silver 5. The Man with the Oil-Can 6. The Evangelists 7. The Aristocrat and the Artisan 8. Passion is Good, Obsession is Better 9. From Closet to Cosmos 10. Leaves of Glass 11. The Grandest Failure 12. An Uncivil War Part II: Seeing the Light 13. The Odd Couple 14. What?s My Line? 15. Laboratory of Light 16. Deconstructing the Sun 17. A Strange Cryptography 18. Trumpets and Telescopes 19. Burn This Note 20. A Spectacle of Suns 21. The Cloud That Wasn?t There 22. The Union of Two Astronomies Part III: Money, Mirrors, and Madness 23. Mr. Hale of Chicago 24. The Universe in the Mirror 25. Threads to a Web Part IV: Expanding Horizons 26. Size Matters 27. A Night to Remember 28. Oculis subjecta fidelibus Appendix Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
Introduction Prologue Part I: Picturing the Heavens 1. Writing with Light 2. True Eye and Faithful Hand 3. The Ingenious Mechanic of Dorchester 4. Summits of Silver 5. The Man with the Oil-Can 6. The Evangelists 7. The Aristocrat and the Artisan 8. Passion is Good, Obsession is Better 9. From Closet to Cosmos 10. Leaves of Glass 11. The Grandest Failure 12. An Uncivil War Part II: Seeing the Light 13. The Odd Couple 14. What?s My Line? 15. Laboratory of Light 16. Deconstructing the Sun 17. A Strange Cryptography 18. Trumpets and Telescopes 19. Burn This Note 20. A Spectacle of Suns 21. The Cloud That Wasn?t There 22. The Union of Two Astronomies Part III: Money, Mirrors, and Madness 23. Mr. Hale of Chicago 24. The Universe in the Mirror 25. Threads to a Web Part IV: Expanding Horizons 26. Size Matters 27. A Night to Remember 28. Oculis subjecta fidelibus Appendix Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
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