Télécharger le livre :  The Scientific Legacy of William Herschel

This book presents a modern scholarly analysis of issues associated with England’s most famous astronomer, William Herschel. The world’s leading experts on Herschel, discoverer of the planet Uranus, here offer their combined wisdom on many aspects of his life and...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-11-25
Collection : Historical & Cultural Astronomy
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231,04

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Télécharger le livre :  Investigating the Origin of the Asteroids and Early Findings on Vesta

This book assesses the origin of asteroids by analyzing the discovery of Vesta in 1807. Wilhelm Olbers, who discovered Vesta, suggested that the asteroids were the result of a primordial planet’s explosion. Cunningham studies that idea in detail through the writings of...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-09-20

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94,94

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Télécharger le livre :  Bode's Law and the Discovery of Juno

Johann Bode developed a so-called law of planetary distances best known as Bode’s Law. The story of the discovery of Juno in 1804 by Karl Harding tells how Juno fit into that scheme and is examined as it relates to the philosopher Georg Hegel’s 1801 thesis that there...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-06-02

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94,94

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Télécharger le livre :  Studies of Pallas in the Early Nineteenth Century

Based on extensive primary sources, many never previously translated into English, this is the definitive account of the discovery of Pallas as it went from being classified as a new planet to reclassification as the second of a previously unknown group of...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-11-14

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94,94

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