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List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue;
1. The story of James Lick;
2. Captain Floyd and the Lick Trust;
3. European journey;
4. Transition to the skies over Mount Hamilton;
5. 'Dear Captain';
6. Ladder to the sky;
7. Success and conflict;
8. Engineering feat on Mount Hamilton;
9. James Lick's last journey;
10. Final stages;
11. To the stars; Epilogue; Notes; Index.
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| $99.99 | Digital |
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Edward Holyan
reviewed James Lick's Monument: The Saga of Captain Richard Floyd and the Building of the Lick Observatory on September 03, 2013
James Lick's Monument: The Saga of Captain Richard Floyd and the Building of the Lick Observatory
I'd forgotten how good this biography of the astronomer, anglophile, snob, cat-lover, and his psuedo-literary wife, was until I reread this book. Hubble is the astronomer most associated with the discovery, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, that the universe is expanding. His main work was done at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, near Pasadena. I like Hubble the scientist more, his relationship with his mother & siblings, whom he dropped almost all contact with once he became established in science, less
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Add James Lick's Monument: The Saga of Captain Richard Floyd and the Building of the Lick Observatory, This is a remarkable story of the building of the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in California. Helen Wright's informative account vividly describes the founding of the observatory by the millionaire James Lick, as well as the pioneering role that Cap, James Lick's Monument: The Saga of Captain Richard Floyd and the Building of the Lick Observatory to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add James Lick's Monument: The Saga of Captain Richard Floyd and the Building of the Lick Observatory, This is a remarkable story of the building of the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in California. Helen Wright's informative account vividly describes the founding of the observatory by the millionaire James Lick, as well as the pioneering role that Cap, James Lick's Monument: The Saga of Captain Richard Floyd and the Building of the Lick Observatory to your collection on WonderClub |