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Author Legro, Ron, author

Title The man who painted the universe : the story of a planetarium in the heart of the north woods / Ron Legro & Avi Lank
Edition E-book edition
Published Madison, WI : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2015

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Contents Prologue: Dream Descending; 1. Billions and Billions; 2. From Hungary to the Stars; 3. Off He Goes, into the Wild Blue Yonder; 4. Of Hodags and Poniatowski; 5. The Mud Creek Observatory; 6. Oh, Cloudy Night; 7. Spinning the Skies; 8. All Fall Down; 9. The Weight of the World; 10. Mettle on Metal; 11. The Michelangelo of the North Woods; 12. A Soul Proprietorship; 13. To the Painted Universe and Beyond; Epilogue: After the Universe, What?; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources
Summary The story of Frank Kovac, who built a planetarium in the woods of Wisconsin)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Kovac, Frank, 1965-
SUBJECT Kovac, Frank, 1965- fast
Subject Astronomers -- Wisconsin -- Biography
Astronomy.
Planetariums.
Astronomy
astronomy.
orreries.
planetaria (institutions)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
Astronomers
Astronomy
Planetariums
Wisconsin
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Lank, Avi, author
LC no. 2014042431
ISBN 9780870207129
0870207121
0870207113
9780870207112
Other Titles Planetarium in the north woods