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Astronomer by chance

A very thorough account of the developments of radar which led to the new science of radio astronomy . It is intellectually quite taxing, but still very readable,although the digressions into metaphysics in the last few chapters were ,for this reader,rather difficult to understand

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 381 pages

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