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Space Observatories (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1970) Loot Price: R1,493
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Space Observatories (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1970): J. Rountree Lesh

Space Observatories (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1970)

J. Rountree Lesh; Jean-Claude Pecker

Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 21

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Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit, The sky is, up above the roof, Si bleu, si calme So blue, so calm Un arbre, par-dessus Je toit, A tree there, up above the roof, Berce sa palme. Waves leaves of palm. La cloche, dans le ciel qu'on voit, A church bell, in the sky I see, Doucement tinte. Softly tolls. Un oiseau, sur l'arbre qu'on voit, A bird, upon the tree I see, Chante sa plainte. Sadly calls. PAUL VERLAINE Like Verlaine, we are in prison. The prison is our Earth, "which is so pretty"; our atmosphere and its clouds, its "marvellous clouds." (You would think that Verlaine, Prevert and Baudelaire had been comparing notes ) The sky is up above the roof... A tree there, up above the roof... Stars in the sky, like birds ... their rays, like bells (and here we are with Apollinaire ) What we see opens the way to what we guess at; what we observe Ieads us towards the unobservable. A poem releases images, and the invisible grows big with reality. Astronomcrs are a little like poets (indirectly from the Greek 7tostco, make): they make the universe by interpreting messages, extrapolating spectra, and inventing 'models' of the cosmos or of stars - fictional constructions whose observable part constitutes only a small fraction of the whole, and which only the inductive logic of the theoretician allows us to consider as representing unique physical reality.

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Imprint: Springer
Country of origin: Netherlands
Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 21
Release date: November 2013
First published: 1970
Translators: J. Rountree Lesh
Authors: Jean-Claude Pecker
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 122
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1970
ISBN-13: 978-9401033220
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > General
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LSN: 9401033226
Barcode: 9789401033220

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