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Pauper and Prince: Ritchey, Hale, and Big American Telescopes
Donald E. Osterbrock
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| #2212719 in Books | University of Arizona Press | 1993-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.47 x6.57 x9.63l, | File type: PDF | 359 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A tale of two eccentrics|By Francis J. Oreilly|Hale and Ritchey, Ritchey and Hale, the chicken or the egg?
This book describes the background and lives of two men who were responsible for conceiving, funding and building the three largest telescopes of their time.
From what were, until now, the golden days of astronomy, it describes the building of the Yer||
"Everyone interested in understanding how modern, giant reflectors came to be, or the history of 20th-century astronomy, must read [this] book."—Sky & Telescope"A poignant story of human genius and human frailty, and their influence on crucia
George Willis Ritchey was the builder of the first large, successful American reflecting telescopes and worked closely with George Ellery Hale, the phenomenal fund raiser and organizer of observatories; Mount Wilson Observatory stands today as a monument to their collaboration. Osterbrock shows how the relationship of these men helped the United States take the lead in developing major astronomical facilities.
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