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Author : Auguste Collard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book L'astronomie et les astronomes written by Auguste Collard and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Tannery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108084486
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Recherches sur l'histoire de l'astronomie ancienne written by Paul Tannery and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1893 French work reviews the history of ancient Greek astronomy, with its focus on theories expounded in Ptolemy's Almagest.
Author : David Peck Todd
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
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Download or read book Stars and Telescopes written by David Peck Todd and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
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Download or read book Transactions of the International Astronomical Union Vol.iv written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Martinez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521379458
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (794 download)
Download or read book The Observer's Guide to Astronomy written by Patrick Martinez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 700 pages
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Download or read book Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl Weaver Mitman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book History of Electric Light written by Carl Weaver Mitman and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl Weaver Mitman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
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Download or read book Some Practical Aspects of Fuel Economy written by Carl Weaver Mitman and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harvard College Observatory
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Reprints written by Harvard College Observatory and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stefan Hughes
Publisher : ArtDeCiel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162050961X
Total Pages : 1635 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Catchers of the Light written by Stefan Hughes and published by ArtDeCiel Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Catchers of the Light' is a History of Astrophotography. It tells the true stories of the 46 pioneers who did most to master the art of celestial photography, as it was known during its early days; and whose efforts have made it possible for us to see the many magnificent pictures of the Universe featured in books, magazines and on the internet. In its TWO magnificent volumes is contained an unbelievable collection of tales of adventure, adversity and ultimate triumph and tells the uplifting stories of this small band of ordinary men and women, who did such extraordinary things; overcoming obstacles as diverse as war, poverty, cholera, death, very unfriendly cannibal natives and even exploding donkeys. It has been written with a no specific audience in mind - it is a book for anybody in fact - astronomers, photographers, historians, genealogists, art dealers, students, artists, doctors, farmers, builders, teachers & many more. If you like to read about the lives of special people - those who never give up - no matter what - and who succeed in achieving the seemingly impossible - then this is the book for you. This book of 1600 or so pages, with 1800 or more photographs/illustrations and over 2000 references/notes - represents the FIRST fully detailed and professionally researched book on the subject; and tells of the incredible lives of the pioneers of Astrophotography, each with their own incredible story to tell - they were the ‘Catchers of the Light’. Catchers of the Light is divided into ten Parts (I-X), each covering a specific aspect of the subject- I: Origins of Astrophotography; II: Lunar Astrophotography; III: Solar Astrophotography; IV: Solar System Astrophography; V: Deep Space Astrophotography; VI: Photographic Astronomical Spectroscopy; VII: Photographic Sky Surveys; VIII: Astrographs; IX: Modern Digital Age; X: Appendices. The following men and women are to be found in the pages of the book; who are the 'Catchers of the Light': Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (1787-1851); Joseph Nicephore Niepce (1765-1833); Frederick Scott Archer (1814-1857); Richard Leach Maddox (1816-1902); John William Draper (1811-1882); Maurice Loewy (1833-1907); Pierre Henri Puiseux (1855-1928); William Henry Pickering (1858-1938); Armand Hippolyte Leon Fizeau (1819-1896); Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (1819-1868); Warren De La Rue (1815-1889); Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen (1824-1907); John Adams Whipple (1822-1891); William Usherwood (1821-1915); Pierre Paul Henry (1848-1905); Mathieu Prosper Henry (1849-1903); Maximillian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf (1863-1932); William Cranch Bond (1789-1859); George Phillips Bond (1825 -1865); Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824-1896); Henry Draper (1837-1882); Isaac Roberts (1829-1904); William Edward Wilson (1851-1908); James Edward Keeler (1857-1900); Edward Emerson Barnard (1857-1923); Williamina Paton Strevens Fleming (1857-1911); Lewis Morris Rutherfurd (1816-1892); Father Pietro Angelo Secchi (1818-1878); William Huggins (1824-1910); Margaret Lindsay Murray (1848-1915); Edward Charles Pickering (1846 - 1919); Hermann Vogel (1841-1907); Wilhelm Oswald Lohse (1845-1915); Julius Scheiner (1858-1913); Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953); Milton Lasell Humason (1891-1972); Amedee Ernest Barthelemy Mouchez (1821-1892); David Gill (1843-1914); William Parsons (1800-1867); Andrew Ainslie Common (1841-1903); George Willis Ritchey (1864 1945); Henri Chretien (1879-1956); Bernhard Voldemar Schmidt (1879-1935); . Eugen von Gothard (1857-1909); Alfred Rordame (1862-1931); Marcel De Kerolyr (1873-1969). If you have seen or read ‘Longitude’ the story of John Harrison, the country carpenter who built the first clock that could accurately tell the time at sea, and who also made ‘Del Boy’ a ‘millionaire’, then you will love the ‘Catchers of the Light’.
Author : S. Böhme
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662123045
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Literature 1976, Part 1 written by S. Böhme and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts, which has appeared in semi-annual volumes since 1969, is de voted to the recording, summarizing and indexing of astronomical publications throughout the world. It is prepared under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (according to a resolution adopted at the 14th General Assembly in 1970). Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts aims to present a comprehensive documentation of literature in all fields of astronomy and astrophysics. Every effort will be made to ensure that the averagetime interval between the date of receipt of the original literature and publication ofthe abstracts will not exceed eight months. This time interval is near to that achieved by monthly abstracting journals, com pared to which our system of accumulating abstracts for about six months offers the advantage of greater convenience for the user. Volume 17 contains literature published in 1976 and received before August 15, 1976; some older literature which was received late and which is not recorded in earlier volumes is also included. We acknowledge with thanks contributions to this volume by Dr. J. Bouska, who surveyed journals and publications in the Czech languageand supplied us with abstracts in English,and by the Common wealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (C.S.I.R.O.), Sydney, for providing titles and abstracts of papers on radio astronomy. We want to acknowledge valuable contributions to this vol ume by Zentralstelle fur Atomkernenergie-Dokumentation, Leopoldshafen, which supported our ab stracting service by sending us retrospective literature searches.
Author : Roger Hutchins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351954520
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book British University Observatories 1772–1939 written by Roger Hutchins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British University Observatories fills a gap in the historiography of British astronomy by offering the histories of observatories identified as a group by their shared characteristics. The first full histories of the Oxford and Cambridge observatories are here central to an explanatory history of each of the six that undertook research before World War II - Oxford, Dunsink, Cambridge, Durham, Glasgow and London. Each struggled to evolve in the middle ground between the royal observatories and those of the 'Grand Amateurs' in the nineteenth century. Fundamental issues are how and why astronomy came into the universities, how research was reconciled with teaching, lack of endowment, and response to the challenge of astrophysics. One organizing theme is the central importance of the individual professor-directors in determining the fortunes of these observatories, the community of assistants, and their role in institutional politics sometimes of the murkiest kind, patronage networks and discipline shaping coteries. The use of many primary sources illustrates personal motivations and experience. This book will intrigue anyone interested in the history of astronomy, of telescopes, of scientific institutions, and of the history of universities. The history of each individual observatory can easily be followed from foundation to 1939, or compared to experience elsewhere across the period. Astronomy is competitive and international, and the British experience is contextualised by comparison for the first time to those in Germany, France, Italy and the USA.
Author : Florence C. Hsia
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226355616
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Sojourners in a Strange Land written by Florence C. Hsia and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese. But the icon of the missionary-scientist is itself a complex myth. Masterfully correcting the standard story of China Jesuits as simple conduits for Western science, Florence C. Hsia shows how these missionary-scientists remade themselves as they negotiated the place of the profane sciences in a religious enterprise. Sojourners in a Strange Land develops a genealogy of Jesuit conceptions of scientific life within the Chinese mission field from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Analyzing the printed record of their endeavors in natural philosophy and mathematics, Hsia identifies three models of the missionary man of science by their genres of writing: mission history, travelogue, and academic collection. Drawing on the history of early modern Europe’s scientific, religious, and print culture, she uses the elaboration and reception of these scientific personae to construct the first collective biography of the Jesuit missionary-scientist’s many incarnations in late imperial China.
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521058018
Total Pages : 1146 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 3, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two volumes mainly introductory, Dr Needham now embarks upon his systematic study of the development of the natural sciences in China. The Sciences of the Earth follow: geography and cartography, geology, seismology and mineralogy. Dr Needham distinguishes parallel traditions of scientific cartography and religious cosmography in East and West, discussing orbocentric wheel-maps, the origins of the rectangular grid system, sailing charts and relief maps, Chinese survey methods, and the impact of Renaissance cartography on the East. Finally-and here Dr Needham's work has no Western predecessors-there are full accounts of the Chinese contribution to geology and mineralogy.
Author : Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ... written by Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385304784
Total Pages : 882 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : Audouin Dollfus
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461472881
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)
Download or read book The Great Refractor of Meudon Observatory written by Audouin Dollfus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The large telescope at Meudon has become legendary. When it was conceived, after 1870, astronomy as a whole was limited to visual observation. Knowledge of the sky was limited to what one could see, assisted only by optical means. The large telescopes produced at this time produced larger images, permitting close-up views: the Meudon telescope was able to accomplish this perfectly. At Meudon, which became the Mecca of visual observation, the major planets were examined in a way that no other telescope had previously been able to. The telescope monitored the state of their atmospheres and mapped the appearance of their surfaces. Through the telescope, one could obtain photographs showing the nuclei of comets, revealing their very small size, and by using an eyepiece one could measure the separation of double stars. With a marvellous little instrument, the polarimeter, the nature of clouds in planetary atmospheres has been determined, and the type of surface material identified. Many more results were obtained, while photography, universally adopted, revolutionized other knowledge about the world. The sensitive emulsion, combined with large aperture reflecting telescopes, revealed the deepness and richness of the cosmos. The vast telescope of Meudon, which was the largest refracting telescope in Europe, became a legendary instrument and was symbolic of a new way to practice astronomy. Audouin Dollfus, a renowned astronomer, describes the great years of the Meudon telescope. He gives us the entire story of this instrument, from the birth of the concept that drove Jules Janssen at the end of the nineteenth century, to the idea that French astronomy could provide an outstanding telescope which would approach the limits of technical and industrial resources. The telescope remained unchanged until 2006, when the first steps toward restoration and public reopening were taken.
