Elementi Di Astronomia Con Le Applicazioni Alla Geografia Nautica Gnomonica E Cronologia Di Giovanni Santini

Author : Giovanni Santini
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book Elementi di astronomia con le applicazioni alla geografia, nautica, gnomonica e cronologia written by Giovanni Santini and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First edition. A second, enlarged, edition was published in 1830. Both as a practical and theoretic astronomer, Santini has made the Observatory of Padua famous. When he took charge the observatory was located in an old fortified tower, in a precarious condition. The most valuable instrument he found was a Ramsden mural quadrant eight feet in diameter. On account of the political complications and Chiminello protracted illness, the practical work was reduced to a minimum; regular meteorological observations. Santini at once began to take careful observations of comets, planets, planetoids, occultations, and eclipses. In 1811 he determined the latitude of Padua with the aid of Gauss method of three stars in the same altitude, and in 1815 again, with a new repeating circle. In 1819-1820 he published his "Elementi di Astronomia" (2nd ed., Padua, 1830), a work in two parts, of classic soberness and thoroughness. OCLC locates copies in North America at Arizona, Harvard, Ilinois and NYPL; and of the second editoin at Columbia, Michigan, NYPL, Oklahoma, Penn, Texas, US Naval Academy, Union College NY, Utah and Yale.