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Ronald Florence

    Ronald Florence è uno storico e romanziere le cui opere si addentrano nel ricco arazzo della storia europea e mediorientale. Il suo background nella storia europea, affinato a Berkeley e Harvard, informa la sua meticolosa ricerca e la sua avvincente narrazione. I romanzi di Florence sono esplorazioni di figure ed eventi storici significativi, portati in vita attraverso una prosa vivida e una profonda comprensione del passato. I suoi numerosi viaggi arricchiscono ulteriormente le sue narrazioni, permettendo ai lettori di sperimentare le ambientazioni autentiche delle sue avvincenti storie.

    The Perfect Machine
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    • The Perfect Machine

      Building the Palomar Telescope

      • 480pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      Almost a half-century after is completion, the 200-inch Palomar telescope remains an unparalleled combination of vast scale and microscope detail. As huge as the Pantheon of Rome and as heavy as the Statue of Liberty, this magnificent instrument is so precisely built that its seventeen-foot mirror was hand-polished to a tolerance of 2/1,000,000 of an inch. The telescope's construction drove some to the brink of madness, made others fearful that mortals might glimpse heaven, and transfixed an entire nation. Ronald Florence weaves into his account of the creation of "the perfect machine" a stirring chronicle of the birth of Big Science and a poignant rendering of an America mired in the depression yet reaching for the stars.

      The Perfect Machine1995