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The man who painted the universe : the story of a planetarium in the heart of the north woods / Ron Legro & Avi Lank.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Legro, Ron, author.
- Lank, Avi, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kovac, Frank, 1965-.
- Kovac, Frank.
- Astronomers--Wisconsin--Biography.
- Astronomers.
- Astronomy.
- Planetariums.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wisconsin : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The story of Frank Kovac, who built a planetarium in the woods of Wisconsin)
- Contents:
- Contents; Prologue: Dream Descending; 1. Billions and Billions; 2. From Hungary to the Stars; 3. Off He Goes, into the Wild Blue Yonder; 4. Of Hodags and Poniatowski; 5. The Mud Creek Observatory; 6. Oh, Cloudy Night; 7. Spinning the Skies; 8. All Fall Down; 9. The Weight of the World; 10. Mettle on Metal; 11. The Michelangelo of the North Woods; 12. A Soul Proprietorship; 13. To the Painted Universe and Beyond; Epilogue: After the Universe, What?; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-87020-712-1
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