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Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The History of the British Astronomical Association written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Louis Emil Dreyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110806860X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book History of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1820–1920 written by John Louis Emil Dreyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1923, this work surveys the world's oldest astronomical society, with chapters contributed by leading contemporary astronomers.
Author : William Sheehan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030542181
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Neptune: From Grand Discovery to a World Revealed written by William Sheehan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1846 discovery of Neptune is one of the most remarkable stories in the history of science and astronomy. John Couch Adams and U.J. Le Verrier both investigated anomalies in the motion of Uranus and independently predicted the existence and location of this new planet. However, interpretations of the events surrounding this discovery have long been mired in controversy. Who first predicted the new planet? Was the discovery just a lucky fluke? The ensuing storm engaged astronomers across Europe and the United States. Written by an international group of authors, this pathbreaking volume explores in unprecedented depth the contentious history of Neptune’s discovery, drawing on newly discovered documents and re-examining the historical record. In so doing, we gain new understanding of the actions of key individuals and sharper insights into the pressures acting on them. The discovery of Neptune was a captivating mathematical moment and was widely regarded at the time as the greatest triumph of Newton’s theory of universal gravitation. The book therefore begins with Newton’s development of his ideas of gravity. It examines too the mathematical calculations related to the discovery of Neptune, using new theories and tools provided by advances in celestial mechanics over the past twenty years. Through this process, the book analyzes why the mathematical approach that proved so potent in the discovery of Neptune, grand as it was, could not help produce similar discoveries despite several valiant attempts. In the final chapters, we see how the discovery of Neptune marked the end of one quest—to explain the wayward motions of Uranus—and the beginning of another quest to fill in the map and understand the nature of the outer Solar System, whose icy precincts Neptune, as the outermost of the giant planets, bounds.
Author : British Astronomical Association
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Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association written by British Astronomical Association and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Astronomical Association
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Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association written by British Astronomical Association and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Astronomical Association
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Total Pages : 414 pages
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Download or read book Journal of the British Astronomical Association written by British Astronomical Association and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members, 1890-1913, bound with v. 1-23.
Author : Allan Chapman
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Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Victorian Amateur Astronomer written by Allan Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to look in detail at amateur astronomy in Victorian Britain. It deals with the technical issues that were active in Victorian astronomy, and reviews the problems of finance, patronage and the dissemination of scientific ideas. It also examines the relationship between the amateur and professional in Britain. It contains a wealth of previously unpublished biographical and anecdotal material, and an extended bibliography with notes incorporating much new scholarship. In The Victorian Amateur Astronomer, Allan Chapman shows that while on the continent astronomical research was lavishly supported by the state, in Britain such research was paid for out of the pockets of highly educated, wealthy gentlemen ? the so-called ?Grand Amateurs?. It was these powerful individuals who commissioned the telescopes, built the observatories, ran the learned societies, and often stole discoveries from their state-employed colleagues abroad. In addition to the ?Grand Amateurs?, Victorian Britain also contained many self-taught amateurs. Although they belonged to no learned societies, these people provide a barometer of the popularity of astronomy in that age. In the late 19th century, the comfortable middle classes ? clergymen, lawyers, physicians and retired military officers ? took to astronomy as a serious hobby. They formed societies which focused on observation, lectures and discussions, and it was through this medium that women first came to play a significant role in British astronomy. Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students studying the history of science or humanities, professional historians of science, engineering and technology, particularly those with an interest in astronomy, the development of astronomical ideas, scientific instrument makers, and amateur astronomers.
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Total Pages : 1038 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Energy Research Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Lankford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136508341
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book History of Astronomy written by John Lankford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia traces the history of the oldest science from the ancient world to the space age in over 300 entries by leading experts.
Author : British Astronomical Association
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Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Handbook of the British Astronomical Association written by British Astronomical Association and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary R. S. Creese
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810872897
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Ladies in the Laboratory III written by Mary R. S. Creese and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-02-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1998, Ladies in the Laboratory provided a systematic survey and comparison of the work of 19th-century American and British women in scientific research. A companion volume, published in 2004, focused on women scientists from Western Europe. In this third volume, author Mary R.S. Creese expands her scope to include the contributions of 19th- and early 20th-century women of South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The women whose lives and work are discussed here range from natural history collectors and scientific illustrators of the early and mid years of the 19th century to the first generation of graduates of the new colonial colleges and universities. Rarely acknowledged in publications of the British and European specialists, the contributions of these women nonetheless formed a significant part of the natural history information about extensive, previously unknown regions and their products. Rather than a biographical dictionary or a collection of self-contained essays on individuals from many time periods, Ladies in the Laboratory III is a connected narrative tied into the wider framework of 19th-century science and education. A well-organized blend of individual life stories and quantitative information, this volume is for everyone interested in the story of women's participation in 19th century science. The stories of these women make for fascinating reading and serve as a valuable source for the student of women's and colonial history.
Author : S.M. Ansari
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401598622
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book History of Oriental Astronomy written by S.M. Ansari and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the Joint Discussion-17 at the 23rd IAU General Assembly, organised by the Commission 41, held in Kyoto, Japan, August 25-26, 1997
Author : Wayne Orchiston
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319445219
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)
Download or read book John Tebbutt written by Wayne Orchiston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book marks the centennial of Tebbutt's death with a major biographical account surveying his scientific contributions to astronomy, prefaced with a foreword by Sir Patrick Moore. During the second half of the nineteenth century, Tebbutt was Australia's foremost astronomer. He devoted his time and funds to astronomy, and built a truly international reputation that far surpassed Australia's leading professional astronomers of the day. This book marks the centennial of Tebbutt's death with a major biographical account. Tebbutt's remarkable record of achievement extends over more than half a century. Orchiston's book covers the whole of Tebbutt's career, from his yearly observatory reports and comet discoveries to his time as the first president of Sydney's branch of the British Astronomical Association.
Author : Allan Chapman
Publisher : Lion Books
ISBN 13 : 0745980309
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Comets, Cosmology and the Big Bang written by Allan Chapman and published by Lion Books. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will take the story of astronomy on from where Allan Chapman left it in Stargazers, and bring it almost up to date, with the developments and discoveries of the last three centuries. He covers the big names - Halley, Hooke, Herschel, Hubble and Hoyle; and includes the women who pushed astronomy forward, from Caroline Herschel to the Victorian women astronomers. He includes the big discoveries and the huge ideas, from the Milky War, to the Big Bang, the mighty atom, and the question of life on other planets. And he brings in the contributions made in the US, culminating in their race with the USSR to get a man on the moon, before turning to the explosion of interest in astronomy that was pioneered by Sir Patrick Moore and The Sky at Night.
Author : S. Böhme
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662123460
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Literature 1984, Part 2 written by S. Böhme and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Clark
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691141266
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Sun Kings written by Stuart Clark and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the story behind English astronomer Richard Carrington's observations of a mysterious explosion on the surface of the sun and how his understanding that the sun's magnetism directly influences the Earth helped usher in the modern era of astronomy.
Author : Marilyn B. Ogilvie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135531374
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Women and Science written by Marilyn B. Ogilvie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Following the author's previous work, Women in Science: Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century in 1986, an increased interest in feminism, science, and gender issues resulted in this subsequent title. This book will be valuable to scholars working in a variety of academic areas and will be useful at different educational levels from secondary through graduate school. This annotated bibliography of approximately 2700 entries also includes fields, nationality, periods, persons/institutions, reference, and theme indexes.
