Alice and the Space Telescope

by Malcolm S. Longair and Professor Malcolm S. Longair

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801828317
• ISBN13: 9780801828317
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Wonderland and the Hubble Space Telescope

This book is a wonderful introduction to some of the controversies in astrophysics extant at the time of the Hubble launch. It is highly technical, but the general sense can be derived from the text, which is extremely funny. The author skillfully adapts the scientific controversies to the Adventures of Alice in Wonderland. I read this book aloud to my son when he was around 8 years old. Subsequently, he has re-read this book at least three times. ( I suspect that if one were in the field of astrophysics, which I am not, much would now seem quite dated.)