Author: Agnes Mary ClerkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
Author: Agnes Mary ClerkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
Author: Agnes Mary ClerkePublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465556753
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
A History of Astronomy
Author: Anton PannekoekPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486659941
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Well-balanced, carefully reasoned study covers such topics as Ptolemaic theory, work of Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Eddington's work on stars, much more. Illustrated. References.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
Author: Agnes M. ClerkePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781547036219
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century By Agnes M. Clerke
POPULAR HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
Author: AGNES M. CLERKEPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033234914
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler
Author: J. L. E. DreyerPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486600793
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Masterpiece of historical insight and scientific accuracy and the definitive work on Greek astronomy and the Copernican Revolution. Includes surveys of European and Islamic cosmologies of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
A Popular History of Astronomy
Author: Agnes M. ClerkePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266171461
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Excerpt from A Popular History of Astronomy: During the Nineteenth Century The progress of astronomy during the last hundred years has been rapid and extraordinary. In its distinctive features, moreover, the nature of that progress has been such as to lend itself with facility to untechnical treatment. To this circumstance the present volume owes its origin. It embodies an attempt to enable the ordinary reader to follow, with intelligent interest, the course of modern astronomical inquiries, and to realize (so far as it can at present be realized) the full effect of the comprehensive change in the whole aspect, purposes, and methods of celestial science introduced by the momentous discovery of spectrum analysis. Since Professor Grant's invaluable work on the History of Physical Astronomy was published, a third of a century has elapsed. During the interval a so-called new astronomy has grown up by the side of the old. One effect of its advent has been to render the science of the heavenly bodies more popular, both in its needs and in its nature, than formerly. More popular in its needs, since its progress now primarily depends upon the interest in, and consequent efforts towards its advancement of the general public; more popular in its nature, because the kind of knowledge it now chiefly tends to accumulate is more easily intelligible - less remote from ordinary experience - than that evolved by the aid of the calculus from materials collected by the use of the transit-instrument and chrono graph. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
Author: Agnes Mary ClerkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The History of Astronomy
Author: Heather CouperPublisher:
ISBN: 9781554075379
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Traces the stories of humans interacting with the endless wonders of the night sky, beginning with the earliest superstitions and continuing through to the birth and development of the science of astronomy. The authors, both expert astronomers, researched 29 locations worldwide, from Beijing's ancient observatory to the observatory in Puerto Rico that searches for alien radio signals. They also interviewed 26 of the world's most esteemed astronomers, including Stephen Hawking. Covers such areas as: Australian Aborigines, Stonehenge, Polynesian navigators; Egyptian, Chinese and Babylonian astronomers, the Star of Bethlehem; Greek astronomers, early concepts of the Earth's shape and orbit; Galileo, Copernicus, the far universe; the Solar System and the movements of the planets; Newton, gravity, Halley; discovery of Uranus and Neptune, discovery and demotion of Pluto; what stars are made of and why they shine; Hubble, the cosmos, new galaxies, the Big Bang; pulsars, quasars and black holes; are we alone?--From publisher description.
The Oxford Guide to the History of Physics and Astronomy
Author: J. L. HeilbronPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195171985
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"The entries follow an elaborate organizational plan, which amounts to a new classification of knowledge, its institutional settings, and its applications. This plan is reprinted in the opening pages of the Guide." "Thoroughly cross-referenced, and accented with attractive black and white artwork, no other source is as systematic and authoritative or as informative and inviting in its coverage of physics, astronomy and planetary science."--BOOK JACKET.