Instrumentation for Ground-Based Optical Astronomy - Present and Future The Ninth Santa Cruz Summer Workshop in Astronomy and Astrophysics, July 13-July 24, 1987, Lick Observatory (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)

Historically, the discovery of tools, or evidence that tools have been used, has been taken as proof of human activity; certainly the invention and spread of new tools has been a critical marker of human progress and has increased our ability to observe, measure, and understand the physical world. In astronomy the tools are telescopes and the optical and electronic instruments that support them. The use of the telescope by Galileo marked the beginning of a new and productive way to study and understand the universe in which we live. The effects of this new tool on what we can see, and how we see ourselves, are well known. However, after almost four centuries of developing ever more sensitive and subtle instruments as tools for astronomy, it might have been expected that only a few minor improvements would remain to be made, or that possibly the law of diminishing returns would have taken effect. On the contrary, the new instruments and ideas for new instruments described in this book make it clear that the rate of progress has not diminished, and that this subject is still as exciting and productive as ever. Instrumentation for Ground-Based Optical Astronomy was chosen as the theme for the Ninth Santa Cruz Summer Workshop in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Santa Cruz Summer Workshops in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	1988
Editors:	Lloyd B. Robinson
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 39mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	751
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988
ISBN-13:	978-1-4612-8387-4
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Astrophysics Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Geophysics Books > Science & Mathematics > Chemistry > Analytical chemistry > Qualitative analytical chemistry > Chemical spectroscopy, spectrochemistry > General
LSN:	1-4612-8387-6
Barcode:	9781461283874

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