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A Century S Progress In Astronomy
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Author : Hector Macpherson
language : en
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Release Date : 1906
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A Century S Progress In Astronomy
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Author : Hector MacPherson
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2016-05-12
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
A Popular History Of Astronomy
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Author : Agnes M. Clerke
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-10-11
A Popular History Of Astronomy written by Agnes M. Clerke and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-11 with Science categories.
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.
History Of Physical Astronomy From The Earliest Ages To The Middle Of The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Robert Grant
language : en
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Release Date : 1852
History Of Physical Astronomy From The Earliest Ages To The Middle Of The Nineteenth Century written by Robert Grant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1852 with Astronomy categories.
A Popular History Of Astronomy During The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Agnes Mary Clerke
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-06-17
A Popular History Of Astronomy During The Nineteenth Century written by Agnes Mary Clerke and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-17 with Science categories.
This classic example of Victorian popular scientific literature is key to understanding the place of astronomy in nineteenth-century society.
History Of Astronomy
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Author : George Forbes
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-04
History Of Astronomy written by George Forbes and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-04 with History categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "History of Astronomy" by George Forbes. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
A Popular History Of Astronomy During The Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
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Author : Agnes Mary Clerke
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-06-06
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INTRODUCTION We can distinguish three kinds of astronomy, each with a different origin and history, but all mutually dependent, and composing, in their fundamental unity, one science. First in order of time came the art of observing the returns, and measuring the places, of the heavenly bodies. This was the sole astronomy of the Chinese and Chaldeans; but to it the vigorous Greek mind added a highly complex geometrical plan of their movements, for which Copernicus substituted a more harmonious system, without as yet any idea of a compelling cause. The planets revolved in circles because it was their nature to do so, just as laudanum sets to sleep because it possesses a virtus dormitiva. This first and oldest branch is known as "observational," or "practical astronomy." Its business is to note facts as accurately as possible; and it is essentially unconcerned with schemes for connecting those facts in a manner satisfactory to the reason. The second kind of astronomy was founded by Newton. Its nature is best indicated by the term "gravitational"; but it is also called "theoretical astronomy." It is based on the idea of cause; and the whole of its elaborate structure is reared according to the dictates of a single law, simple in itself, but the tangled web of whose consequences can be unravelled only by the subtle agency of an elaborate calculus. The third and last division of celestial science may properly be termed "physical and descriptive astronomy." It seeks to know what the heavenly bodies are in themselves, leaving the How? and the Wherefore? of their movements to be otherwise answered. Now, such inquiries became possible only through the invention of the telescope, so that Galileo was, in point of fact, their originator. But Herschel first gave them a prominence which the whole progress of science during the nineteenth century served to confirm and render more exclusive. Inquisitions begun with the telescope have been extended and made effective in unhoped-for directions by the aid of the spectroscope and photographic camera; and a large part of our attention in the present volume will be occupied with the brilliant results thus achieved. The unexpected development of this new physical-celestial science is the leading fact in recent astronomical history. It was out of the regular course of events. In the degree in which it has actually occurred it could certainly not have been foreseen. It was a seizing of the prize by a competitor who had hardly been thought qualified to enter the lists. Orthodox astronomers of the old school looked with a certain contempt upon observers who spent their nights in scrutinising the faces of the moon and planets rather than in timing their transits, or devoted daylight energies, not to reductions and computations, but to counting and measuring spots on the sun. They were regarded as irregular practitioners, to be tolerated perhaps, but certainly not encouraged. The advance of astronomy in the eighteenth century ran in general an even and logical course....
A Popular History Of Astronomy
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Author : Agnes M. Clerke
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-06-04
A Popular History Of Astronomy written by Agnes M. Clerke and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-04 with Science categories.
Excerpt from A Popular History of Astronomy: During the Nineteenth Century In preparing the Second Edition, much advantage has been derived from criticisms upon the first, some through the press, others most gratefully received by the author from persons of eminence and authority in science. Omissions have been supplied, errors have been corrected, and pains taken to render the work in every way more worthy of the cordial reception granted to it on its first appearance. Astronomical research has, in the short interval, made such rapid progress as to demand the addition of a considerable amount of new matter to the later Chapters, their growth illustrating, however imperfectly, the vitality of the science. The Index has also been enlarged, and a Chronological Table added for convenience of reference. By the great kindness of Mr. Common and the MM. Henry, to whom the author tenders her best acknowledgments for their courteous assistance, some striking specimens of celestial photography are presented in the form of a Frontispiece and Vignette. Beyond any mere ornamental effect, these beautiful autograph pictures have a scientific value and significance which time will but enhance. The process used in their reproduction is that of the Messrs. Woodbury. 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.
History Of Physical Astronomy
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Author : Robert Grant
language : en
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Release Date : 1852
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Astronomy And Astrophysics In Spain 1850 1914
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Author : Pedro Ruiz Castell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Astronomy And Astrophysics In Spain 1850 1914 written by Pedro Ruiz Castell and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Astronomy categories.
This book explores the progress of astronomy and astrophysics in Spain during the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. In fact, it covers a period in which astronomy passed from a position of weakness to one of strength, as manifested by the size and diversity of the community of practitioners. This progress of Spanish astronomy has to be understood in the broader context of the modernizing ideals that took root in the country during the late nineteenth century. But it was essentially the fortuitous convergence of the eclipses of 1900 and 1905 what opened up a new period for the development of astronomy and astrophysics in Spain. These astronomical events brought astronomers from across the world to this country and thereby gave Spanish astronomers an opportunity for international contacts, which led to the inclusion of Spanish scholars into an international astronomical community in the process of becoming institutionalised. This work, which makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the emergence and progress of astronomy and astrophysics in Spain from the second half of the nineteenth century, is impressively documented with printed sources and manuscripts. The result is a punchy text, sustained by a rich body of evidence and ideas.