This excellent book about the astronomers who use the Big Eye鈥攖he
five-metre telescope on Mount Palomar in California鈥攚as first published in
1991. Not since Fred Hoyle’s novel, The Black Cloud, has there been a better
account of what it is like to be an astronomer peering through one of the finest
astronomical instruments in the world. Richard Preston’s First Light is
published by Corgi, 拢6.99/$24, ISBN 0552997846.
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