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Book Synopsis Letters from Sir William Huggins, with Related Material by : Sir William Huggins
Download or read book Letters from Sir William Huggins, with Related Material written by Sir William Huggins and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises 3 autograph letters from Sir William Huggins to Jabez Hogg dated 7 March 1876, 21 September 1882, and 7 April 1883 (with transcripts), and 1 portrait photograph of Huggins without a caption. The bound volume includes a biography of Huggins which is briefer than that contained in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Book Synopsis Selected Correspondence of William Huggins by : William Huggins
Download or read book Selected Correspondence of William Huggins written by William Huggins and published by Pickering & Chatto Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 1398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Huggins (1824–1910) was celebrated in his lifetime as the father of astrophysics. Huggins was also the author of numerous groundbreaking articles documenting his use of the spectroscope to analyse the light from celestial bodies. From the earliest days of his career Huggins was regularly in contact with other scientists, including astronomers, chemists, physicists, mathematicians and the makers of scientific instruments. Correspondents include Ernest Rutherford (pioneer of atomic physics), Thomas Romney Robinson (director of the Armagh Observatory), George Gabriel Stokes and Joseph Larmor (each served as Physical Secretary of the Royal Society), Thomas and Howard Grubb (father and son, makers of telescopes in Dublin), David Gill (director of the Royal Observatory at the Cape in South Africa) and George Ellery Hale (director of the Kenwood Astrophysical Observatory and founder of many others). This edition includes over 1,000 letters and excerpts from Huggins’s observatory notebooks. The documents, the majority of which are previously unpublished, reveal the important role that Huggins played in the development of astrophysics. Editorial apparatus situates the letters in their scientific and historical context. The edition will be of interest to those researching astrophysics, astronomy, the history of instruments and the history of science more generally.
Book Synopsis Selected Correspondence of William Huggins Vol 2 by : Barbara J Becker
Download or read book Selected Correspondence of William Huggins Vol 2 written by Barbara J Becker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Huggins (1824–1910) was celebrated in his lifetime as the father of astrophysics. The letters and observatory notebooks contained in this edition allow Huggins’ important role in the development of astrophysics to fully emerge. Material comes from archives around the world and is previously unpublished.
Book Synopsis Selected Correspondence of William Huggins Vol 1 by : Barbara J Becker
Download or read book Selected Correspondence of William Huggins Vol 1 written by Barbara J Becker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Huggins (1824–1910) was celebrated in his lifetime as the father of astrophysics. The letters and observatory notebooks contained in this edition allow Huggins’ important role in the development of astrophysics to fully emerge. Material comes from archives around the world and is previously unpublished.
Book Synopsis Selected Correspondence of William Huggins Vol 2 by : Barbara J Becker
Download or read book Selected Correspondence of William Huggins Vol 2 written by Barbara J Becker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Huggins (1824–1910) was celebrated in his lifetime as the father of astrophysics. The letters and observatory notebooks contained in this edition allow Huggins’ important role in the development of astrophysics to fully emerge. Material comes from archives around the world and is previously unpublished.
Book Synopsis A Sketch of the Life of Sir William Huggins by : Sir William Huggins
Download or read book A Sketch of the Life of Sir William Huggins written by Sir William Huggins and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Willaim Huggins Papers by : William Huggins
Download or read book Willaim Huggins Papers written by William Huggins and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection includes letters from artist William Hogarth and author Tobias Smollett, and other papers.
Author :Susan M.P. McKenna-Lawlor Publisher :Springer Science & Business Media ISBN 13 :9401703515 Total Pages :171 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (17 download)
Book Synopsis Whatever Shines Should be Observed by : Susan M.P. McKenna-Lawlor
Download or read book Whatever Shines Should be Observed written by Susan M.P. McKenna-Lawlor and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is good to mark the new Millennium by looking back as well as forward. Whatever Shines Should Be Observed looks to the nineteenth century to celebrate the achievements of five distinguished women, four of whom were born in Ireland while the fifth married into an Irish family, who made pioneering contributions to photography, microscopy, astronomy and astrophysics. The women featured came from either aristocratic or professional families. Thus, at first sight, they had many material advantages among their peers. In the ranks of the aristocracy there was often a great passion for learning, and the mansions in which these families lived contained libraries, technical equipment (microscopes and telescopes) and collections from the world of nature. More modest professional households of the time were rich in books, while activities such as observing the stars, collecting plants etc. typically formed an integral part of the children's education. To balance this it was the prevailing philosophy that boys could learn, in addition to basic subjects, mathematics, mechanics, physics, chemistry and classical languages, while girls were channelled into 'polite' subjects like music and needlework. This arrangement allowed boys to progress to University should they so wish, where a range of interesting career choices (including science and engineering) was open to them. Girls, on the other hand, usually received their education at home, often under the tutelage of a governess who would not herself had had any serious contact with scientific or technical subjects. In particular, progress to University was not during most of the nineteenth century an option for women, and access to scientific libraries and institutions was also prohibited. Although those women with aristocratic and professional backgrounds were in a materially privileged position and had an opportunity to 'see' through the activities of their male friends and relatives how professional scientific life was lived, to progress from their places in society to the professions required very special determination. Firstly, they had to individually acquire scientific and technical knowledge, as well as necessary laboratory methodology, without the advantage of formal training. Then, it was necessary to carve out a niche in a particular field, despite the special difficulties attending the publication of scientific books or articles by a woman. There was no easy road to science, or even any well worn track. To achieve recognition was a pioneering activity without discernible ground rules. With the hindsight of history, we recognise that the heroic efforts which the women featured in this volume made to overcome the social constraints that held them back from learning about, and participating in, scientific and technical subjects, had a consequence on a much broader canvas. In addition to what they each achieved professionally they contributed within society to a gradual erosion of those barriers raised against the participation of women in academic life, thereby assisting in allowing University places and professional opportunities to gradually become generally available. It is a privilege to salute and thank the wonderful women of the nineteenth century herein described for what they have contributed to the women of today. William Herschel's famous motto quicquid nitet notandum (whatever shines should be observed) applies in a particular way to the luminous quality of their individual lives, and those of us who presently observe their shining, as well as those who now wait in the wings of the coming centuries to emerge upon the scene, can each see a little further by their light.
Book Synopsis Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by :
Download or read book Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: Volume 2, 1862-1873 by : James Clerk Maxwell
Download or read book The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: Volume 2, 1862-1873 written by James Clerk Maxwell and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II: 1862-1873 contains texts which illuminate Maxwell's scientific maturity. In this period he wrote the classic works on field physics and statistical molecular theory which established his unique status in the history of science. His important correspondence with Thomson and Tait provides remarkable insight into the major themes of his physics.
Book Synopsis Women in Science by : Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie
Download or read book Women in Science written by Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ancient Greek physician Agamede to physicist and chemist Marie Curie, in descriptions ranging from a single paragraph to several pages, Women in Science profiles 186 women who as patronesses, translators, popularizers, collectors, illustrators, inventors, and active researchers, made significant contributions to science before 1910. It adds a new dimension to the history of science by rescuing from obscurity the many women who overcame significant cultural barriers to pursue scientific objectives. Was Marie Curie the only woman in science? This question, asked by a college student trying to write an essay on women in science, planted a seed that grew over a decade of research into this informative and accessible biographical dictionary and bibliography. At the heart of this biographical dictionary are profiles of 186 women whose work is representative of the participation of women in the science of their time and culture. Despite the increasing attention devoted to women's history in recent years, our knowledge of many of these women is still meager, and the book will serve as much as a guide to future research as a resource for historians, librarians, students, and the general public. The book opens with a substantial essay relating the general state of science and philosophical ideas about the role of women in society to the actual participation of women in science over the past two and a half millennia. The classified, annotated bibliography that completes the book can be used as a general research tool as well as a source of information about the particular women whose lives are sketched in this work. The entries provide basic information on their subjects, are referenced to primary sources and other materials in the bibliography, and share an easily flowing narrative style. Beyond that, the length, approach, and focus of the entries have been allowed to vary within an appropriate range to suit the particular women whose lives they recount and whose achievements they evaluate.
Book Synopsis Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives by : Pnina G. Abir-Am
Download or read book Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives written by Pnina G. Abir-Am and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These pioneering studies of women in science pay special attention to the mutual impact of family life and scientific career. The contributors address five key themes: historical changes in such concepts as scientific career, profession, patronage, and family; differences in "gender image" associated with various branches of science; consequences of national differences and emigration; opportunities for scientific work opened or closed by marriage; and levels of women's awareness about the role of gender in science. An international group of historians of science discuss a wide range of European and American women scientists--from early nineteenth-century English botanists to Marie Curie to the twentieth-century theoretical biologist, Dorothy Wrinch.
Book Synopsis The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: Volume 3, 1874-1879 by : James Clerk Maxwell
Download or read book The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: Volume 3, 1874-1879 written by James Clerk Maxwell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive edition of Maxwell's manuscript papers published virtually complete and largely for the first time.
Book Synopsis Scott of the Antarctic by : Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley
Download or read book Scott of the Antarctic written by Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Robert Peary claimed to have reached the North Pole in 1909, polar explorers looked toward the South. Robert Falcon Scott, whose 1901?1904 expedition into Antarctica's frozen shoulder had made him a celebrity in England, began plans to return. In June1910 the Terra Nova sailed toward the earth's underbelly. When Scott'søparty reached the South Pole on January 17,1912, after severe hardships, they discovered that the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had beat them to it a month before. Demoralized, frozen, exhausted, and starved, they started to retrace their painful steps over the ice but were forced to stop only eleven miles from a supply depot. By a supreme act of will, the captain managed to write his last letters, which were found with the bodies in November. Elspeth Huxley draws on those letters and diaries in her luminous biography. It reaches back to Scott's first voyage to the Antarctic, introduces the charming sculptor he married in middle age after a whirlwind of self-doubt, and builds up to the last expedition?a marvel of teamwork?that will always be remembered for the nobility shown by men facing death. The story of Robert Falcon Scott is all the more interesting because he was a complex, self-questioning man whose conquest of the self was "a feat perhaps more admirable than the conquest of the Pole."
Book Synopsis Ingenious Ireland by : Mary L. Mulvihill
Download or read book Ingenious Ireland written by Mary L. Mulvihill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-12-23 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingenious Ireland takes readers on a magnificent tour of the country's natural wonders, clever inventions, and historic sites. Richly illustrated and meticulously compiled, Ingenious Ireland introduces readers to the complete history, culture, and landscape of all thirty-two Irish counties. Mary Mulvihill unearths Ireland's treasures and divulges her secrets, such as the oldest fossil footprints in the Northern hemisphere, the advent of railways, the invention of milk of magnesia, and why the shamrock is a sham. Fascinating and comprehensive, Ingenious Ireland unravels the mysteries and marvels of this remarkable country.
Book Synopsis Unravelling Starlight by : Barbara J. Becker
Download or read book Unravelling Starlight written by Barbara J. Becker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging traditional accounts of the origins of astrophysics, this book presents the first scholarly biography of nineteenth-century English amateur astronomer William Huggins (1824–1910). A pioneer in adapting the spectroscope to new astronomical purposes, William Huggins rose to scientific prominence in London and transformed professional astronomy to become a principal founder of the new science of astrophysics. The author re-examines his life and career, exploring unpublished notebooks, correspondence and research projects to expose the boldness of this scientific entrepreneur. While Sir William Huggins is the main focus of the book, the involvement of Lady Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848–1915) in her husband's research is examined, where it may have been previously overlooked or obscured. Written in an engaging style, this book has broad appeal and will be valuable to scientists, students and anyone interested in the history of astronomy.
Book Synopsis Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn by : Pieter C. van der Kruit
Download or read book Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn written by Pieter C. van der Kruit and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacobus C. Kapteyn (1851-1922) was a Dutch astronomer who contributed heavily to major catalogs of star positions, such as the Cape Photographic Durchmusterung and the Harvard-Groningen Durchmusterung, and arranged extensive international collaboration through his Plan of Selected Areas. He contributed to the establishment of statistical astronomy and structure and dynamics of the Sidereal System. All aspects of Kapteyn’s life are discussed, from his birth in Barneveld, the Netherlands, to his death in Amsterdam, and his entire resume of scientific achievements in between. Kapteyn had some conflicts with others in his field, especially after the world became divided on how to handle scientific contributions from Germany post-World War I. Both Kapteyn's struggles and achievements are written against the backdrop of both the historical context of the world at that time as well as the scientific one.
