Big and Bright : : A History of the McDonald Observatory / / David S. Evans, J. Derral Mulholland.
By day, every year over 40,000 visitors pour in. Across the Rio Grande, a hundred miles away, Mexican mountaineers use the white domes as landmarks. By night, perched almost 7,000 feet above the sleeping, earthbound world, astronomers probe the secrets of the night sky. This is the University of Tex...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1986 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | History of Science Series
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