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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Arranged alphabetically from Alvar Aalto to Eva Zumwalt, each author biography includes personal information, addresses, career history, writings, work in progress, and more.
By day, every year over 40,000 visitors pour in. Across the Rio Grande, a hundred miles away, Mexican mountaineers use the white domes as landmarks. By night, perched almost 7,000 feet above the sleeping, earthbound world, astronomers probe the secrets of the night sky. This is the University of Texas McDonald Observatory, one of the world's largest university-operated astronomical installations. Big and Bright: A History of the McDonald Observatory is the story of a remarkable collaboration between two major universities, one a prestigious private school, the other a growing southwestern state institution. The University of Chicago had astronomers, but its Yerkes Observatory was aging and u...