Parallax
An astronomer charts the story of our quest to measure the distance to a star in this “delightful history of a crucial advance in knowledge” (Booklist).
Since the ancient Greeks, great scientific minds have attempted to determine the distance of stars using the principle of parallax: the apparent shift in an object''s position when viewed from different vantage points. Not until the nineteenth cent...
An astronomer charts the story of our quest to measure the distance to a star in this “delightful history of a crucial advance in knowledge” (Booklist).
Since the ancient Greeks, great scientific minds have attempted to determine the distance of stars using the principle of parallax: the apparent shift in an object''s position when viewed from different vantage points. Not until the nineteenth cent...
