Author: Robert GrantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
History of Physical Astronomy from the Earliest Ages to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century ...
Author: Robert GrantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
History of Physical Astronomy from the Earliest Ages to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. Comprehending a Detailed Account of the Establishment of the Theory of Gravitation by Newton, and Its Development by His Successors; with an Exposition of the Progress of Research on All the Other Subjects of Celestial Physics by Robert Grant
Author: Robert GrantHistory of Physical Astronomy, from the earliest ages to the middle of the nineteenth century, etc
Author: Robert GRANT (F.R.A.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science
Author: London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science
Author: Philosophical Magazine
Author: The Emergence of Astrophysics in Asia
Author: Tsuko NakamuraPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319620827
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 873
Book Description
This book examines the ways in which attitudes toward astronomy in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan, Thailand and Uzbekistan have changed with the times. The emergence of astrophysics was a worldwide phenomenon during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and it gradually replaced the older-style positional astronomy, which focused on locating and measuring the movements of the planets, stars, etc.. Here you will find national overviews that are at times followed by case studies of individual notable achievements. Although the emphasis is on the developments that occurred around 1900, later pioneering efforts in Australian, Chinese, Indian and Japanese radio astronomy are also included. As the first book ever published on the early development of astrophysics in Asia, the authors fill a chronological and technological void. Though others have already written about earlier astronomical developments in Asia, and about the recent history of astronomy in various Asian nations, no one has examined the emergence of astrophysics, the so-called ‘new astronomy’ in Asia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
A Short History of Science
Author: William Thompson SedgwickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Revolutionaries of the Cosmos
Author: Ian GlassPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191563986
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Galileo, Newton, Herschel, Huggins, Hale, Eddington, Shapley and Hubble: these astronomers applied ideas drawn from physics to astronomy and made dramatic changes to the world-pictures that they inherited. They showed that celestial objects are composed of the same materials as the earth and that they behave in the same way. They displaced successively the earth, the sun and finally the milky way galaxy from being the centre of the universe. This book contains their biographies and outlines their greatest discoveries. Hard work, physical insight, desire for fame and a strong belief in the rightness of their own ideas were characteristics of all eight. Their often quirky personalities led them into bitter controversies with their contemporaries. But their successes arose from the outstanding clarity of their thoughts, their practical ability and their strong sense of direction in science.
Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon’s Motion (1691-1757)
Author: John M. SteelePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461421489
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
The discovery of a gradual acceleration in the moon’s mean motion by Edmond Halley in the last decade of the seventeenth century led to a revival of interest in reports of astronomical observations from antiquity. These observations provided the only means to study the moon’s ‘secular acceleration’, as this newly-discovered acceleration became known. This book contains the first detailed study of the use of ancient and medieval astronomical observations in order to investigate the moon’s secular acceleration from its discovery by Halley to the establishment of the magnitude of the acceleration by Richard Dunthorne, Tobias Mayer and Jérôme Lalande in the 1740s and 1750s. Making extensive use of previously unstudied manuscripts, this work shows how different astronomers used the same small body of preserved ancient observations in different ways in their work on the secular acceleration. In addition, this work looks at the wider context of the study of the moon’s secular acceleration, including its use in debates of biblical chronology, whether the heavens were made up of æther, and the use of astronomy in determining geographical longitude. It also discusses wider issues of the perceptions and knowledge of ancient and medieval astronomy in the early-modern period. This book will be of interest to historians of astronomy, astronomers and historians of the ancient world.