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In 1609, Galileo fits two lenses inside a cylindrical tube, aims the tube at the sky, and forever changes the world. Seeing and Believing tells the story, discovery by discovery, of the telescope, one of the few inventions that have revolutionised our view of the universe and how we fit in to it. From Galileo himself to William Herschel who discovered Uranus, to George Ellery Hale who found both Mount Wilson and Mount Palomar observatories. Most fascinating is the character of the telescope itself, which designed solely to help us determine our place in the scheme of things, is an evolving metaphor for how we see ourselves.
Richard Panek brings us an engaging and spirited chronicle of the humbling journey that has made humans smaller and the universe infinitely vaster than we ever imagined.
The author
Richard Panek has written for the ‘New York Times Magazine, Outside, Esquire’ and the ‘Chicago Tribune’, and is a contributing writer at ‘Elle’ and ‘Mirabella’. He is the winner of the PEN award for short fiction, and the author of ‘Waterloo Diamonds’. He lives in New York.
Der Autor
Richard Panek lebt in New York. Er gewann den PEN-Award für Short Fiction und schreibt als Wissenschaftsjournalist für das "New York Times Magazine", für "Esquire", "Outside" und "Elle".
Pressestimmen
"Richard Panek’s eye-popping book - brief enough to be gobbled at one sitting, rich enough to reopen immediately - is a story of ever-expanding horizons"
(Guardian)
"This book is a winner"
(New Scientist)
"A truly cosmic yarn is wonderfully told in Seeing and Believing. Richard Panek’s book is part of a welcome publishing phenomenon that includes Longitude and Fermat’s Last Theorem: pocket-sized, wide-ranging and stylishly written."
(Financial Times)
Fourth Estate Ltd., 2000, 208 S.
21,10 Euro
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-84115-286-8
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