Library
Items can be checked out by NAA members only.
Members: contact the librarian to reserve any available items. Items may be picked up and returned at general meetings, astronomy fundamentals, or you can make arrangements with the librarian.
505–509 of 509 titles
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THE WORLD TREASURY OF PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY AND MATHEMATICS
TIMOTHY FERRIS, ed. · 1991 · 859 pgs
Large, fine collection of essays, covering the state of our knowledge on just about everything in the cosmos and how science looks at it.
No. 498, Shelf W
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WRINKLES IN TIME
SMOOT & DAVIDSON · 1993 · 332 pgs
Nobel Prize winner Smoot tells both the story of the adventures of his career and the scientific investigations along the way, leading to the discovery of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background.
No. 508, Shelf W
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YEAR-ROUND MESSIER MARATHON FIELD GUIDE
HARVARD C. PENNINGTON · 1997 · 196 pgs
A wonderful, thorough guide to finding and observing each of the Messier objects; usable both for a marathon or for viewing 1 object.
No. 836, Shelf Y
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YERKES OBSERVATORY 1892-1950
BIRTH, NEAR DEATH, AND RESURRECTION OF A SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTION
DONALD OSTERBROCK · 1997 · 384 pgs
Details great historical importance to astrophysics and astronomy of Yerkes, 40-inch refractor and other telescopes, George Ellery Hale, the Greats who studied and worked there
No. 880, Shelf Y
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ZWICKY
OUTCAST GENIUS
JOHN JOHNSON · 2019 · 368 pgs
Man who made groundbreaking contriunutions to science, engineering; science popularizer, a pariah in the scientific community and combative with those who disagreed
No. 858, Shelf Z