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When women begin disappearing from U. S. Military bases around the
world, the President calls in his personal troubleshooter. Can he
find and save those women who have suddenly disappeared? Join us in
a desperate journey that begins in San Diego and continues on to
Washington, New York, London, Paris, Saudi Arabia and Israel,
trying to find those missing women.
The founding of the Dudley Observatory at Albany, N.Y., in 1852 was
a milestone in humanity's age-old quest to understand the heavens.
As the best equipped astronomical observatory in the U.S. led by
the first American to hold a Ph.D. in astronomy, Benjamin Apthorp
Gould Jr., the observatory helped pioneer world-class astronomy in
America. It also proclaimed Albany's status as a major national
center of culture, knowledge and affluence. This book explores the
story of the Dudley Observatory as a 150 year long episode in civic
astronomy. The story ranges from a bitter civic controversy to a
venture into space, from the banks of the Hudson River to the
highlands of Argentina. It is a unique glimpse at a path not taken,
a way of doing science once promising, now vanished. As discoveries
by the Dudley Observatory's astronomers, especially its second
director Lewis Boss, made significant contributions to the modern
vision of our Milky Way galaxy as a rotating spiral of more than a
million stars, the advance of astronomy left that little
observatory behind.
The founding of the Dudley Observatory at Albany, N.Y., in 1852 was
a milestone in humanity's age-old quest to understand the heavens.
As the best equipped astronomical observatory in the U.S. led by
the first American to hold a Ph.D. in astronomy, Benjamin Apthorp
Gould Jr., the observatory helped pioneer world-class astronomy in
America. It also proclaimed Albany's status as a major national
center of culture, knowledge and affluence. This book explores the
story of the Dudley Observatory as a 150 year long episode in civic
astronomy. The story ranges from a bitter civic controversy to a
venture into space, from the banks of the Hudson River to the
highlands of Argentina. It is a unique glimpse at a path not taken,
a way of doing science once promising, now vanished. As discoveries
by the Dudley Observatory's astronomers, especially its second
director Lewis Boss, made significant contributions to the modern
vision of our Milky Way galaxy as a rotating spiral of more than a
million stars, the advance of astronomy left that little
observatory behind.
When women begin disappearing from U. S. Military bases around the
world, the President calls in his personal troubleshooter. Can he
find and save those women who have suddenly disappeared? Join us in
a desperate journey that begins in San Diego and continues on to
Washington, New York, London, Paris, Saudi Arabia and Israel,
trying to find those missing women.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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