by Alan W. Hirshfeld · W. H. Freeman · tapa dura · ISBN 9780716737117
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«Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos» is Alan W. Hirshfeld's essay on the history of astronomy, published by W. H. Freeman in hardback.
The work narrates one of the great challenges of observational astronomy: measuring the distance to the stars. From Ancient Greece to the nineteenth century, three astronomers competed to achieve it with the telescopes of their era, in a race with rivalries, duels and rescues: a young man rescued from a collapse who ends up building great telescopes, or a musician who discovers a planet from his garden.
Published in 2001 in English, the edition has 336 pages and includes diagrams, period engravings and paintings.
For fans of popular science and the history of astronomy seeking a narrative with the pace of an adventure.
