Author: George Biddell Airy
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387341601
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
Author: George Biddell Airy
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387341601
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387341601
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy, K.C.B.
Author: Sir George Biddell Airy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomers
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomers
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy, K.C.B.
Author: George Biddell Airy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The life of Airy was essentially that of a hard-working, business man, and differed from that of other hard-working people only in the quality and variety of his work. It was not an exciting life, but it was full of interest, and his work brought him into close relations with many scientific men, and with many men high in the State. His real business life commenced after he became Astronomer Royal, and from that time forward, during the 46 years that he remained in office, he was so entirely wrapped up in the duties of his post that the history of the Observatory is the history of his life.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The life of Airy was essentially that of a hard-working, business man, and differed from that of other hard-working people only in the quality and variety of his work. It was not an exciting life, but it was full of interest, and his work brought him into close relations with many scientific men, and with many men high in the State. His real business life commenced after he became Astronomer Royal, and from that time forward, during the 46 years that he remained in office, he was so entirely wrapped up in the duties of his post that the history of the Observatory is the history of his life.
Autobiography Of Sir George Biddell Airy, K.C.B.
Author: George Biddell Airy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789390294343
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789390294343
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
Resolute and Undertaking Characters: The Lives of Wilhelm and Otto Struve
Author: A.H. Batten
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400928831
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
My interest in the history of the Struve family is long-standing but lay dormant until 1972, when I found myself organizing a symposium of the International Astronomical Union in memory of the second Otto Struve. To satisfy my own curiosity, I investigated the precise relationships of the famous astronomers in the family and published an account of them, based mainly on secondary sources. The exercise made me a ware that there was no biography in English of the first and probably still the greatest astronomer in the clan - Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve. Wilhelm's son, the first Otto, wrote an account (in German) of his father's life, intended primarily for family and close friends and --though printed-- not generally available. Through the kindness of a family member I have a copy from which I have been able to work. The Soviet historian of science, Z. K. Sokolovskaya, wrote a biography in Russian, in 1964, to mark the centenary of Wilhelm's death. This had a limited edition, and my efforts to obtain a copy failed. Neither work has, in its entirety, been translated into English, although Michael Meo of Oakland, California, and Kevin Krisciunas of Hilo, Hawaii, have kindly made available to me their unpublished translations of some sections of the latter. In the of a complete copy, however, when I decided to attempt an English absence language biography, I thought it best to do so independently of Sokolovskaya's.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400928831
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
My interest in the history of the Struve family is long-standing but lay dormant until 1972, when I found myself organizing a symposium of the International Astronomical Union in memory of the second Otto Struve. To satisfy my own curiosity, I investigated the precise relationships of the famous astronomers in the family and published an account of them, based mainly on secondary sources. The exercise made me a ware that there was no biography in English of the first and probably still the greatest astronomer in the clan - Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve. Wilhelm's son, the first Otto, wrote an account (in German) of his father's life, intended primarily for family and close friends and --though printed-- not generally available. Through the kindness of a family member I have a copy from which I have been able to work. The Soviet historian of science, Z. K. Sokolovskaya, wrote a biography in Russian, in 1964, to mark the centenary of Wilhelm's death. This had a limited edition, and my efforts to obtain a copy failed. Neither work has, in its entirety, been translated into English, although Michael Meo of Oakland, California, and Kevin Krisciunas of Hilo, Hawaii, have kindly made available to me their unpublished translations of some sections of the latter. In the of a complete copy, however, when I decided to attempt an English absence language biography, I thought it best to do so independently of Sokolovskaya's.
A History of Light and Colour Measurement
Author: Sean F. Johnston
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420034774
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
2003 Paul Bunge Prize of the Hans R. Jenemann Foundation for the History of Scientific Instruments Judging the brightness and color of light has long been contentious. Alternately described as impossible and routine, it was beset by problems both technical and social. How trustworthy could such measurements be? Was the best standard of inten
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420034774
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
2003 Paul Bunge Prize of the Hans R. Jenemann Foundation for the History of Scientific Instruments Judging the brightness and color of light has long been contentious. Alternately described as impossible and routine, it was beset by problems both technical and social. How trustworthy could such measurements be? Was the best standard of inten
An Empire of Magnetism
Author: Edward J. Gillin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198890958
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book offers an in-depth, global history of the British Magnetic Survey - the nineteenth-century, British-government-funded efforts to measure and understand the earth's magnetic field. These scientific efforts are situated within the context of the development of 'global science' and the ways they intersected with empire and colonialism.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198890958
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book offers an in-depth, global history of the British Magnetic Survey - the nineteenth-century, British-government-funded efforts to measure and understand the earth's magnetic field. These scientific efforts are situated within the context of the development of 'global science' and the ways they intersected with empire and colonialism.