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Download or read book Lewis Swift written by Gary W. Kronk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography covers the life of Lewis Swift (1820-1913), who discovered 13 comets and nearly 1,200 other deep sky objects. All 13 comets found by Swift now bear his name, including three periodic comets with periods of 6 years (11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR), 9 years (64P/Swift-Gehrels), and 133 years (109P/Swift-Tuttle). Swift's enthusiasm and success as an amateur astronomer helped make him famous in the United States. With the help of others, Swift was able to buy a 16-inch refractor, the third largest telescope in the United States at the time. Hulbert Harrington Warner built "Warner Observatory" to house this telescope. As a prolific writer and lecturer, Swift's stories appeared in newspapers and magazines, while his lectures showed that he was able to explain anything in a way that everyone could understand. When Warner went broke during the "Panic of 1893," Swift was forced to leave his home. Almost two dozen invitations arrived from around the United States asking him to bring his telescope to their city, and he eventually accepted the invitation of Californian Thaddeus Sobieski Constantin Lowe. This book highlights Swift's valuable contributions to astronomy before failing eyesight forced him to give up this profession. In addition to detailing Swift's life, biographical material is also provided for a number of individuals who were influenced by Swift. This includes his son, Edward, who was discovering deep sky objects as a teenager.
Book Synopsis Letter to Lewis Swift, Bensalem Near Bristol, Pennsylvania, from A.A. Browne, Concerning a Bond Given by Robert E.G. Swift, which He is Authorized to Collect by : Aquila Arrell Browne
Download or read book Letter to Lewis Swift, Bensalem Near Bristol, Pennsylvania, from A.A. Browne, Concerning a Bond Given by Robert E.G. Swift, which He is Authorized to Collect written by Aquila Arrell Browne and published by . This book was released on with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Parkways of the Canadian Rockies by : Brian Patton
Download or read book Parkways of the Canadian Rockies written by Brian Patton and published by Summerthought Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great source of Canadian Rockies maps, Parkways of the Canadian Rockies is a fact-filled driving guide to Banff National Park, Jasper National Park, Yoho National Park, and Kootenay National Park. First published in 1975, Parkways of the Canadian Rockies was the first comprehensive map and interpretive guide to roads in the Canadian Rockies. The revised 5th edition includes: Colour photography Driving distances in both kilometres and miles More than 400 points of interest Descriptions of 80 short hikes Natural history facts and statistics 38 colour Canadian Rockies maps Information on campgrounds and lodging
Book Synopsis Lewis Swift: Comet Hunter by : J O Rienhardt
Download or read book Lewis Swift: Comet Hunter written by J O Rienhardt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-10-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief biography of Lewis Swift from a small town in upstate New York to observatory director in California and return to New York. A short information section on comets is included.
Book Synopsis The Lives of the Poets by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book The Lives of the Poets written by Samuel Johnson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-05-28 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope - are memorable cameos of the life of writing in which Johnson is as attentive to human frailty as to literary prowess. The shorter Lives preserve some of Johnson's most piercing, critical judgements. Unsentimental, opinionated, and quotable, The Lives of the Poets continues to influence the reputations of the writers concerned. It is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most humanly diverting. This selection of the Lives of ten of the most important poets draws its text from Roger Lonsdale's authoritative complete edition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Book Synopsis Doomsday Asteroid by : Donald W. Cox
Download or read book Doomsday Asteroid written by Donald W. Cox and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps of The locations of asteroid craters on the earth on endpapers.
Download or read book Honey from Stone written by Chet Raymo and published by Cowley Publications. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizing his book according to the monastic hours of prayer, Chet Raymo examines the strength of scientific language to encounter the divine in the natural world.
Book Synopsis This Wild Spirit by : Colleen Skidmore
Download or read book This Wild Spirit written by Colleen Skidmore and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her mountain adventures: "A day on the trail, or a scramble over the glacier, or even with a quiet day in camp to get things in order for the morrow's conquests? Some how when once this wild spirit enters the blood...I can hardly wait to be off again." Vaux's compulsion was shared by many women whose intellects, imaginations, and spirits rose to the challenge of the mountains between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. This Wild Spirit explores a sampling of women's creative responses--in fiction and travel writing, photographs and paintings, embroidery and beadwork, letters and diaries, poetry and posters--to their experiences in the Rocky Mountains of Canada.
Book Synopsis Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Bulletin by : Philosophical Society of Washington
Download or read book Bulletin written by Philosophical Society of Washington and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-14,16- include the society's Proceedings,1871-1905,1961- .
Book Synopsis The Immortal Fire Within by : William Sheehan
Download or read book The Immortal Fire Within written by William Sheehan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-30 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the first full-length biography of Edward Emerson Barnard, tells the remarkable tale of endurance and achievement of one of the leading astronomers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Through his career, Barnard scoured the heavens endlessly, leaving an astonishing legacy of observations - of planets, satellites, comets, double stars, bright and dark nebulae, and globular clusters - that make him one of the greatest observers of all time.Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book includes many of Barnard's famous wide-field photographs of comets and the Milky Way. It provides a complete history of Barnard's fascinating life and work, and offers unusual insight into the astronomers he knew and observatories with which he was associated and will be of interest to astronomers and historians of science.
Book Synopsis The Journal of the Senate of the ... General Assembly of the State of Ohio ... by : Ohio. General Assembly. Senate
Download or read book The Journal of the Senate of the ... General Assembly of the State of Ohio ... written by Ohio. General Assembly. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of the Senate of the ... General Assembly of the State of Ohio ... by : Ohio. General Assembly. Senate
Download or read book Journal of the Senate of the ... General Assembly of the State of Ohio ... written by Ohio. General Assembly. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Welsh Americans by : Ronald L. Lewis
Download or read book Welsh Americans written by Ronald L. Lewis and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States. A majority of them were skilled laborers from the coal mines of Wales who had been recruited by American mining companies. Readily accepted by American society, Welsh immigrants experienced a unique process of acculturation. In the first history of this exceptional community, Ronald Lewis explores how Welsh immigrants made a significant contribution to the development of the American coal industry and how their rapid and successful assimilation affected Welsh American culture. Lewis describes how Welsh immigrants brought their national churches, fraternal orders and societies, love of literature and music, and, most important, their own language. Yet unlike eastern and southern Europeans and the Irish, the Welsh--even with their "foreign" ways--encountered no apparent hostility from the Americans. Often within a single generation, Welsh cultural institutions would begin to fade and a new "Welsh American" identity developed. True to the perspective of the Welsh themselves, Lewis's analysis adopts a transnational view of immigration, examining the maintenance of Welsh coal-mining culture in the United States and in Wales. By focusing on Welsh coal miners, Welsh Americans illuminates how Americanization occurred among a distinct group of skilled immigrants and demonstrates the diversity of the labor migrations to a rapidly industrializing America.
