Author: Lawrence Parsons (2nd earl of Rosse.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
An account of the observations on the great nebula in Orion, made at Birr castle ... between 1848 and 1867
Author: Lawrence Parsons (2nd earl of Rosse.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Observing and Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters
Author: Wolfgang SteinickePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139490109
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
Providing the first comprehensive historical study of the New General Catalogue, this book is an important resource to all those interested in the history of modern astronomy and visual deep-sky observing. It covers the people, observatories, instruments and methods involved in nineteenth-century visual deep-sky observing, as well as prominent deep-sky objects.
Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World
Author: The Scientific Papers of William Parsons
Author: William Parsons Earl of RossePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Most of the papers deal with the telescope and nebulae.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Author: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Selected Correspondence of William Huggins Vol 1
Author: Barbara J BeckerPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040236596
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
William Huggins (1824–1910) was celebrated in his lifetime as the father of astrophysics. The letters and observatory notebooks contained in this edition allow Huggins’ important role in the development of astrophysics to fully emerge. Material comes from archives around the world and is previously unpublished.
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
Author: R. Charles MollanPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526101939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This is a revealing account of the family life and achievements of the Third Earl of Rosse, a hereditary peer and resident landlord at Birr Castle, County Offaly, in nineteenth-century Ireland, before, during and after the devastating famine of the 1840s. He was a remarkable engineer, who built enormous telescopes in the cloudy middle of Ireland. The book gives details, in an attractive non-technical style which requires no previous scientific knowledge, of his engineering initiatives and the astronomical results, but also reveals much more about the man and his contributions – locally in the town and county around Birr, in political and other functions in an Ireland administered by the Protestant Ascendancy, in the development and activities of the Royal Society, of which he was President from 1848–54, and the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The Countess of Rosse, who receives full acknowledgement in the book, was a woman of many talents, among which was her pioneering work in photography, and the book includes reproductions of her artistic exposures, and many other attractive illustrations.
An Account of the Observations on the Great Nebula in Orion
Author: Laurence Parsons Rosse (4th Earl of)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nebulae
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Atlas of the Messier Objects
Author: Ronald StoyanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009364049
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The first edition of this stunning reference atlas was hailed as the most comprehensive, detailed, and beautiful account of the Messier objects then available. The second edition of the Atlas continues this trend, with thoroughly updated astrophysical, historical, and observational information and new large-scale color photos for every object.