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Author(s):	Helen Wright

Date:	1958	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	B0007JRE0S
Pages:	176	OCR:	N	Quality:	scan	ISBN13:
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The giant telescope, recently erected on Mount Palomar in California, is the greatest wonder of the modern world.  Miss Wright's intimate description, and the numerous drawings and photographs with which the book is illustrated, will be meat and drink to those who cannot go and see this marvellous instrument for themselves — as i jo,ooo fortunate Americans have done in the last twelve months. 
Like the ioo-inch Mount Wilson reflector — previously the largest telescope in the world — the 200-inch Palomar reflector was not the automatic result of American desire to beat all records. Both telescopes were built because one man — George Ellery Hale — was filled with a passionate determination that they should be  built. The successful construction of  the Palomar telescope is an epic story of triumph over defeat and disaster.  
In Miss Wright's telling it loses nothing of its excitement — up to the appalling moment when the first observation was made, and the great  mirror yielded a hopelessly confused  image. . . . 
Miss Wright is a professional American astronomer, educated in England and Switzerland, and at Vassar College. She has worked in the Vassar College Astronomy Department, the U.S. Naval Observatory, the Mount Wilson  Observatory, and the Maria Mitchell Observatory. She wrote the biography  of Maria Mitchell, the first American woman astronomer  and has the rare capacity of humanizing her expert knowledge.

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