Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422372210
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 85, 1942)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422372210
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 113, No. 2, 1969)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422371404
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 101, no. 2, 1957)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422372111
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge
Author: American Philosophical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Charles Olivier and the Rise of Meteor Science
Author: Richard TaibiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319445189
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
This fascinating portrait of an amateur astronomy movement tells the story of how Charles Olivier recruited a hard-working cadre of citizen scientists to rehabilitate the study of meteors. By 1936, Olivier and members of his American Meteor Society had succeeded in disproving an erroneous idea about meteor showers. Using careful observations, they restored the public’s trust in predictions about periodic showers and renewed respect for meteor astronomy among professional astronomers in the United States. Charles Olivier and his society of observers who were passionate about watching for meteors in the night sky left a major impact on the field. In addition to describing Olivier’s career and describing his struggles with competitive colleagues in a hostile scientific climate, the author provides biographies of some of the scores of women and men of all ages who aided Olivier in making shower observations, from the Leonids and Perseids and others. Half of these amateur volunteers were from 13 to 25 years of age. Their work allowed Olivier and the AMS to contradict the fallacious belief in stationary and long-enduring meteor showers, bringing the theory of their origin into alignment with celestial mechanics. Thanks to Olivier and his collaborators, the study of meteors took a great leap forward in the twentieth century to earn a place as a worthy topic of study among professional astronomers.
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 88, 1944)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422372166
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 124, No. 5, 1980)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370780
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 100, no. 3)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422381908
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Native People, Native Lands
Author: Bruce Alden CoxPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0886290627
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This collection of timely essays by Canadian scholars explores the fundamental link between the development of aboriginal culture and economic patterns. The contributors draw on original research to discuss Megaprojects in the North, the changing role of native women, reserves and devices for assimilation, the rebirth of the Canadian Metis, aboriginal rights in Newfoundland, the role of slave-raiding, and epidemics and firearms in native history.