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008			050317s2005 mdua 001 0 eng
010			_a 2005007786
020			_a0801882346 (acidfree paper)
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050	0	0	_aQB88 _b.Z57 2005
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100	1		_aZirker, Jack B.
245	1	3	_aAn acre of glass : _ba history and forecast of the telescope / _cJ.B. Zirker.
260			_aBaltimore : _bJohns Hopkins University Press, _c2005.
300			_a343 p. : _bill. (some col.) ; _c24 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_aThe first three hundred years -- The age of Hale -- New windows on the universe -- The rise of the great centers -- The Hubble Space Telescope -- A mirror in many pieces -- Spinning glass -- A profusion of telescopes -- Beating the seeing -- The astronomer's microscope -- Toward the ever-receding horizon -- The future in space.
650		0	_aTelescopes _xHistory.
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