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Of stars and men : reminiscences of an astronomer / Zdeněk Kopal.
LIBRA QB36.K5 K66 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kopal, Zdeněk, 1914-1993.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kopal, Zdeněk, 1914-1993.
- Kopal, Zdeněk.
- Astronomers--Biography.
- Astronomers.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol ; Boston : Adam Hilger, [1986]
- Summary:
- A major autobiography of one of the twentieth century's most respected astronomers, Zdenek Kopal. Since the beginning of his professional career in the early 1930s Professor Kopal, as observer, outstanding theoretician, populariser, editor and teacher, has been closely involved with the evolution of astronomy. Here, in his autobiography he contemplates the history and possible future of his subject and of civilisation itself.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- ISBN:
- 0852745672
- OCLC:
- 17547831
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