A Concise History Of Astronomy
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A Concise History Of Astronomy
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Author : Peter Doig
language : en
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Release Date : 1950
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The Cambridge Concise History Of Astronomy
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Author : Michael Hoskin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-03-18
The Cambridge Concise History Of Astronomy written by Michael Hoskin 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 1999-03-18 with Gardening categories.
This is a textbook on the history of astronomy focusing on the topics of prime importance.
A Short History Of Astronomy
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Author : Arthur Berry
language : en
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Release Date : 1898
A Short History Of Astronomy written by Arthur Berry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Astronomy categories.
A Short History Of Astronomy
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Author : Arthur Berry
language : en
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Release Date : 1909
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The History Of Astronomy A Very Short Introduction
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Author : Michael Hoskin
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2003-05-08
The History Of Astronomy A Very Short Introduction written by Michael Hoskin and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-08 with Science categories.
Astronomy, perhaps the first of the sciences, was already well developed by the time of Christ. Seventeen centuries later, after Newton showed that the movements of the planets could be explained in terms of gravitation, it became the paradigm for the mathematical sciences. In the nineteenth century the analysis of star-light allowed astrophysicists to determine both the chemical composition and the radial velocities of celestial bodies, while the development of photography enabled distant objects invisible to the human eye, to be studied and measured in comfort. Technical developments during and since the Second World War have greatly enlarged the scope of the science by permitting the study of radiation. This is a fascinating introduction to the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the mid-nineteenth century. Historical records are first found in Babylon and Egypt, and after two millennia the arithmetical astronomy of the Babylonians merged with the Greek geometrical approach to culminate in the Almagest of Ptolemy. This legacy was transmitted to the Latin West via Islam, and led to Copernicus's claim that the Earth is in motion. In justifying this Kepler converted astronomy into a branch of dynamics, leading to Newton's universal law of gravity. The book concludes with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century applications of Newton's law, and the first explorations of the universe of stars. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Short History Of Astronomy
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Author : ARTHUR. BERRY
language : en
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Release Date : 2018
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A Concise History Of Solar And Stellar Physics
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Author : Jean-Louis Tassoul
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-05
A Concise History Of Solar And Stellar Physics written by Jean-Louis Tassoul and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-05 with Science categories.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history of ideas about the sun and the stars, from antiquity to modern times. Two theoretical astrophysicists who have been active in the field since the early 1960s tell the story in fluent prose. About half of the book covers most of the theoretical research done from 1940 to the close of the twentieth century, a large body of work that has to date been little explored by historians. The first chapter, which outlines the period from about 3000 B.C. to 1700 A.D., shows that at every stage in history human beings have had a particular understanding of the sun and stars, and that this has continually evolved over the centuries. Next the authors systematically address the immense mass of observations astronomy accumulated from the early seventeenth century to the early twentieth. The remaining four chapters examine the history of the field from the physicists perspective, the emphasis being on theoretical work from the mid-1840s to the late 1990s--from thermodynamics to quantum mechanics, from nuclear physics and magnetohydrodynamics to the remarkable advances through to the late 1960s, and finally, to more recent theoretical work. Intended mainly for students and teachers of astronomy, this book will also be a useful reference for practicing astronomers and scientifically curious general readers.
A Short History Of Astronomy
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Author : Arthur John Berry
language : en
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Release Date : 1961
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A Short History Of Astronomy
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Author : Arthur Berry
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
A Short History Of Astronomy written by Arthur Berry and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...motion (chapter iv., 92), which was not actually detected till long afterwards (chapter xiii., 278), is called annual or stellar parallax (the adjective being frequently omitted); and the name is applied in particular to the greatest angle between the direction of the star as seen from the sun and as seen from the earth in the course of the year. If in fig. 69 we regard M as representing a star, o the sun, and the circle as being the earth's path round the sun, then the angle Omq is the annual parallax of M. In this particular case Cassini deduced from Richer's observations, by some rather doubtful processes, that the sun's parallax was about 9" '5, corresponding to a distance from the earth of about 87,000,000 miles, or about 360 times the distance of the moon, the most probable value, according to modern estimates (chapter xiii., 284), being a little less than 93,000,000. Though not really an accurate result, this was an enormous improvement on anything that had gone before, as Ptolemy's estimate of the sun's distance, corresponding to a parallax of 3', had survived up to the earlier part of the 17th century, and although it was generally believed to be seriously wrong, most corrections of it had been purely conjectural (chapter' vii., i45) 162. Another famous discovery associated with the early days of the Paris Observatory was that of the velocity of light. In 1671 Picard paid a visit to Denmark to examine what was left of Tycho Brahe's observatory at Hveen, and brought back a young Danish astronomer, Olaus Roemer (1644-1710), to help him at Paris. Roemer, in studying the motion of Jupiter's moons, observed (1675) that the intervals between successive eclipses of a moon (the eclipse being caused...
A Brief History Of Astronomy And Astrophysics
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Author : Kenneth R. Lang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
A Brief History Of Astronomy And Astrophysics written by Kenneth R. Lang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.