Annotated And Classified Catalogue Of Rare And Standard Works On Astronomy Comprising Chronology Geodesy Horology Dialling And Other Collateral Subjects And Including The Library Of The Late John Louis Emil Dreyer With An Appendix Of The Works Of Sir Isaac Newton And His Commentators As Well As A Selection Of Works From This Library PDF Download
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Download Annotated and Classified Catalogue of Rare and Standard Works on Astronomy, Comprising Chronology, Geodesy, Horology, Dialling, and Other Collateral Subjects, and Including the Library of the Late John Louis Emil Dreyer ... with an Appendix of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton, and His Commentators, as Well as a Selection of Works from this Library Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Download Bibliography of Astronomers: The spirit of the nineteenth century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John C. Barentine |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2015-10-23 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319227955 |
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Casual stargazers are familiar with many classical figures and asterisms composed of bright stars (e.g., Orion and the Plough), but this book reveals not just the constellations of today but those of yesteryear. The history of the human identification of constellations among the stars is explored through the stories of some influential celestial cartographers whose works determined whether new inventions survived. The history of how the modern set of 88 constellations was defined by the professional astronomy community is recounted, explaining how the constellations described in the book became permanently “extinct.” Dr. Barentine addresses why some figures were tried and discarded, and also directs observers to how those figures can still be picked out on a clear night if one knows where to look. These lost constellations are described in great detail using historical references, enabling observers to rediscover them on their own surveys of the sky. Treatment of the obsolete constellations as extant features of the night sky adds a new dimension to stargazing that merges history with the accessibility and immediacy of the night sky.
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Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Electric measurements |
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Author | : Donald E. Osterbrock |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2010-04-12 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0520268695 |
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The world's first mountain-top observatory and America's first big-science research center, Lick Observatory exemplifies astronomy's dramatic development in the past century. A dedicated Confederate naval officer and his jack-of-all-trades foreman used the bequest of a miserly California eccentric to transform an isolated mountain peak into the world's premier research observatory. Its first staff included a director from West Point and three of the outstanding astronomers of their time. Since its dedication in 1888, Lick Observatory has been the site of many of the most important discoveries in astronomy. Eye on the Sky presents Lick Observatory from the point of view of the people who breathed life into its giant telescopes. Their community was both constant and constantly transformed, shaped by workers famous and unknown who made it their home. The authors also explain in terms anyone can understand the laboratory advances that were adapted to telescopes to make them more powerful, and the conceptual breakthroughs that discoveries at the telescope helped bring about. The men and women who went to the top of Mount Hamilton in search of greater knowledge of the skies helped to change our conception of the universe and our place in it . They were people with personal and political lives as well as scientific careers, and their story illuminates a time and a place where foundations were laid for the discoveries of the next century.
Author | : Alan C. Bowen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 783 |
Release | : 2020-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004400567 |
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In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, renowned scholars address questions about what the ancient science of the heavens was and the numerous contexts in which it was pursued.
Author | : Joshua Nall |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2019-08-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0822986612 |
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Mass media in the late nineteenth century was full of news from Mars. In the wake of Giovanni Schiaparelli’s 1877 discovery of enigmatic dark, straight lines on the red planet, astronomers and the public at large vigorously debated the possibility that it might be inhabited. As rivalling scientific practitioners looked to marshal allies and sway public opinion—through newspapers, periodicals, popular books, exhibitions, and encyclopaedias—they exposed disagreements over how the discipline of astronomy should be organized and how it should establish acceptable conventions of discourse. News from Mars provides a new account of this extraordinary episode in the history of astronomy, revealing how major transformations in astronomical practice across Britain and America were inextricably tied up with popular scientific culture and a transatlantic news economy that enabled knowledge to travel. As Joshua Nall argues, astronomers were journalists, too, eliding practice with communication in consequential ways. As writers and editors, they played a pivotal role in the emergence of a “new astronomy” dedicated to the study of the physical constitution and life history of celestial objects, blurring harsh distinctions between those who produced esoteric knowledge and those who disseminated it.
Author | : Dorothy Stimson |
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Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : George Walker |
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Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Algebra |
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