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Author : Eugene Fairfield McPike
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hevelius, Flamsteed and Halley written by Eugene Fairfield McPike and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eugene Fairfield MacPike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Hevelius, Flamsteed and Halley ; 3 Contemporary Astronomers and Their Mutual Relations written by Eugene Fairfield MacPike and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joannes Hevellus
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book MacPike (E.F.) Hevelius, Flamsteed and Halley written by Joannes Hevellus and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Carl Ipsen
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1413456871
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Edmond Halley written by David Carl Ipsen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes information about Edmond Halley and his other contributions to science and the world.
Author : Eric Gray Forbes
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780750301473
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, The First Astronomer Royal written by Eric Gray Forbes and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Eric Forbes left behind at his death an important collection of the letters of John Flamsteed (1646-1719), First Astronomer Royal. A leading figure in the final phases of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, his extensive correspondence with 129 British and foreign scholars all over the world touches on many of the scientific discussions of the day. A detailed, scholarly work of reference, The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, The First Astronomer Royal: Volume 1 is an essential guide to the exciting developments in scientific thinking that occurred during the seventeenth century. It supplements the published correspondence of Isaac Newton and Henry Oldenburg, and will be an invaluable research tool, not only for historians of astronomy, but also for researchers examining how scientific thought developed.
Author : Angus Armitage
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Edmond Halley written by Angus Armitage and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan H. Cook
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198500315
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Edmond Halley written by Alan H. Cook and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmond Halley (1656-1742), MA, LLD, FRS, Capt. RN, Savillian Professor of Geometry and Astronomer Royal, stands pre-eminent among Oxford, English, and European scientists. A contemporary of Wren, Pepys, Hooke, Handel, Purcell, and Dryden, he was a schoolboy in London while the Great Fireraged, and was an active participant in the Enlightenment, an age of profound developments in all the arts and sciences. As a younger contemporary of Isaac Newton, he had a crucial part in the Newtonian revolution in the natural sciences. It was Halley who set the question that led Newton to writethe Principia, and who edited, paid for, and reviewed it. In later years he applied the methods of the Principia widely in astronomy and geophysics. Now more widely known for his prediction of the return of "his" comet, Halley discovered the proper motion of stars, made important studies of themoon's motion, and his investigations of the Earth's magnetic field and of tides were unrialled for centuries. His prediction of the transit of Venus led to Cook's voyage to Tahiti. He was far more than an cloistered academic; his exploits as a naval captain led to perilous adventures, and he wasalso a notable servant of the State. Much material about his eventful career has come to light in recent years, making this a timely new account of the life, scientific interests, and continuing influence of this engaging and adventurous scholar. Sir Alan Cook has written a fascinating andilluminating account of Halley's life and science, making this a unique and highly readable biography of one of the key figures of his time.
Author : David K. Love
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1633888924
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Edmond Halley written by David K. Love and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmond Halley is known far and wide thanks largely to the comet bearing his name, the return of which he predicted in 1705. While that discovery would be enough to make the career of any scientist, Halley’s massive contributions to the fields of astronomy, navigation, geophysics, mathematics, engineering, and actuarial science as a young man and eventually as Astronomer Royal are mostly overlooked. Edmond Halley: The Many Discoveries of the Most Curious Astronomer Royal is a revelatory and deeply researched biography of a man whose defining achievement isn’t even the half of it. A jack-of-all-trades when it came to scientific reasoning, an all-around academic and workaholic who couldn’t leave well enough alone, Halley was amazingly productive and prolific. He was behind some of the most groundbreaking discoveries in human history: It was Halley who was the first to accurately plot the stars of the southern hemisphere. He published Isaac Newton’s Principia, arguably the most important scientific text ever written; translated the works of ancient Greek mathematician Apollonius; captained the ship Paramore on a scientific expedition to plot the Earth’s magnetic fields; was the first to calculate mortality annuities, creating the foundation for actuarial science; made improvements to the diving bell; surveyed the tides of the English Channel; and began the movement to accurately measure the distance between the Earth and Sun, unlocking the key to determining the distances to the nearest stars. In this incisive and perceptive biography, author David K. Love reveals the boundless mind and endless curiosity of Edmond Halley firmly cementing the legacy of the second Astronomer Royal among the first-rate scientists of his time.
Author : H. Popple
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5872324731
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (723 download)
Download or read book Map of the British Empire in America written by H. Popple and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard B. Peterson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Wonderful Apparition written by Richard B. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmond Halley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Correspondence and Papers of Edmond Halley written by Edmond Halley and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin A. Ronan
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Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Edmond Halley: Genius in Eclipse written by Colin A. Ronan and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Shapin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022614884X
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book A Social History of Truth written by Steven Shapin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another? In A Social History of Truth, Shapin engages these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in seventeenth-century England. Steven Shapin paints a vivid picture of the relations between gentlemanly culture and scientific practice. He argues that problems of credibility in science were practically solved through the codes and conventions of genteel conduct: trust, civility, honor, and integrity. These codes formed, and arguably still form, an important basis for securing reliable knowledge about the natural world. Shapin uses detailed historical narrative to argue about the establishment of factual knowledge both in science and in everyday practice. Accounts of the mores and manners of gentlemen-philosophers are used to illustrate Shapin's broad claim that trust is imperative for constituting every kind of knowledge. Knowledge-making is always a collective enterprise: people have to know whom to trust in order to know something about the natural world.
Author : Julie Wakefield
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309167752
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Halley's Quest written by Julie Wakefield and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-09-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most people, Edmond Halley is best known for accurately predicting the periodic appearance of the comet that ultimately would bear his name. But his greatest achievement may have been overlookedâ€" indeed few people know that it was Halley who solved the riddle of accurate navigation for all sea-going vessels. As seventeenth-century scientists gradually came to believe that the inside of the Earth was magnetized they were puzzled by the fact magnetic north not only varied slightly from place to place, but gradually changed over time, suggesting a slow variation of the Earth's magnetic field. But if the Earth was permanently magnetized, how could its magnetism vary? Edmond Halley, Britain's Astronomer Royal, ingeniously proposed that the Earth contained a number of spherical shells, one inside the other, each magnetized differently, each slowly rotating in relation to the others. This brilliant deduction earned Halley the command of a small sailing ship, the 52-foot Paramore, and with it, a royal mandate. Halley was to sail forth "to stand so far into the South, till you discover the Coast of the Terra Incognita." But more importantly, determine the variation between true and magnetic north in order to more accurately calculate longitudeâ€"a feat that would improve Britain's navigational skills and ensure its dominance of the high seas. Halley's Quest takes readers on a trilogy of sea voyages, each of which proved to be as novel and revealing as it was difficult and controversial. But more than a yarn of risk and adventure, the story at the core of the book is a deeply personal and intellectual tale that captures the science and the spirit of an almost forgotten episode in the history of navigation. Once branded a heretic by the Church and denied a prestigious scholarly chair at Oxford University, Halley ultimately changed the course of science, producing charts that described more accurate ways to navigate and documenting new geophysical phenomena ranging from ocean patterns to the motion of Jupiter's moons. This delightful book emphasizes the drama of Halley's mission and the passion of an era hungry for the stories science had to tell.
Author : K Theodore Hoppen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135028540
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Common Scientist of the Seventeenth Century written by K Theodore Hoppen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learned societies, such as the Royal Society of London and the Dublin Philosophical Society were a central feature of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. This volume shows that a study of the work and membership of these groups is essential before any realistic assessment can be made of the scientific world at this time. Based on a wide range of manuscript and other sources, this book illuminates, by means of an examination of a particular group of natural philosophers, on problems of general interest to all those concerned with the wider aspects of science in this period.
Author : Sara Schechner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691227675
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology written by Sara Schechner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities. Although these beliefs became spurned as "vulgar superstitions" by the elite before the end of the century, she shows that they were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley, contributing to their theories in subtle yet profound ways. Schechner weaves together many strands of thought: views of comets as signs and causes of social and physical changes; vigilance toward monsters and prodigies as indicators of God's will; Christian eschatology; scientific interpretations of Scripture; astrological prognostication and political propaganda; and celestial mechanics and astrophysics. This exploration of the interplay between high and low beliefs about nature leads to the conclusion that popular and long-held views of comets as divine signs were not overturned by astronomical discoveries. Indeed, they became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built.
Author : Ivan Volkoff
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Johannes Hevelius and His Catalog of Stars written by Ivan Volkoff and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
