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Author : Edward S. Holden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11554865
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
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Release : 1888
Category : Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001411664
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081665469
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : CHI:63715646
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
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Release : 2006
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115017506
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Pacific States
ISBN : UCR:31210003491741
Author : Fred Hoyle
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1376165449
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.
Author : Donald E. Osterbrock,John R. Gustafson,W.J. Shiloh Unruh
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520268692
The world's first mountain-top observatory and America's first big-science research center, Lick Observatory exemplifies astronomy's dramatic development in the past century. A dedicated Confederate naval officer and his jack-of-all-trades foreman used the bequest of a miserly California eccentric to transform an isolated mountain peak into the world's premier research observatory. Its first staff included a director from West Point and three of the outstanding astronomers of their time. Since its dedication in 1888, Lick Observatory has been the site of many of the most important discoveries in astronomy. Eye on the Sky presents Lick Observatory from the point of view of the people who breathed life into its giant telescopes. Their community was both constant and constantly transformed, shaped by workers famous and unknown who made it their home. The authors also explain in terms anyone can understand the laboratory advances that were adapted to telescopes to make them more powerful, and the conceptual breakthroughs that discoveries at the telescope helped bring about. The men and women who went to the top of Mount Hamilton in search of greater knowledge of the skies helped to change our conception of the universe and our place in it . They were people with personal and political lives as well as scientific careers, and their story illuminates a time and a place where foundations were laid for the discoveries of the next century.
Author : Kenneth I. Kellermann,Ellen N. Bouton,Sierra S. Brandt
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : 9783030323455
This open access book on the history of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory covers the scientific discoveries and technical innovations of late 20th century radio astronomy with particular attention to the people and institutions involved. The authors have made extensive use of the NRAO Archives, which contain an unparalleled collection of documents pertaining to the history of radio astronomy, including the institutional records of NRAO as well as the personal papers of many of the pioneers of U.S. radio astronomy. Technical details and extensive citations to original sources are given in notes for the more technical readers, but are not required for an understanding of the body of the book. This book is intended for an audience ranging from interested lay readers to professional researchers studying the scientific, technical, political, and cultural development of a new science, and how it changed the course of 20th century astronomy.
Author : Agustin UDIAS
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401703499
Jesuits established a large number of astronomical, geophysical and meteorological observatories during the 17th and 18th centuries and again during the 19th and 20th centuries throughout the world. The history of these observatories has never been published in a complete form. Many early European astronomical observatories were established in Jesuit colleges. During the 17th and 18th centuries Jesuits were the first western scientists to enter into contact with China and India. It was through them that western astronomy was first introduced in these countries. They made early astronomical observations in India and China and they directed for 150 years the Imperial Observatory of Beijing. In the 19th and 20th centuries a new set of observatories were established. Besides astronomy these now included meteorology and geophysics. Jesuits established some of the earliest observatories in Africa, South America and the Far East. Jesuit observatories constitute an often forgotten chapter of the history of these sciences.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015563922
Author : Wayne Orchiston,Tsuko Nakamura,Richard G. Strom
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781441981615
With just 400 pages, this title provides readers with the results of recent research from some of the world's leading historians of astronomy on aspects of Arabic, Australian, Chinese, Japanese, and North and South American astronomy and astrophysics. Of particular note are the sections on Arabic astronomy, Asian applied astronomy and the history of Australian radio astronomy, and the chapter on Peruvian astronomy. This title is of particular appeal to those with research interests in applied historical astronomy; archaeoastronomy; calendars, manuscripts, and star charts; historical instruments and observatories, and the history of radio astronomy.
Author : David E. Wells,Norman Beck,Canadian GPS Associates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Artificial satellites in navigation
ISBN : UOM:39015029283507
"The Guide to GPS Positioning is a self-contained introduction to the Global Positioning System, designed to be used in any of the following three ways: as a self-study guide, as lecture notes for formal post-secondary education courses, or as hand-out material to support short-course and seminar presentations on GPS." -- Introduction.
Author : Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Literature
ISBN : IND:30000092099922
Author : Helen Wright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521534550
This is a remarkable story of the building of the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in California. Helen Wright's informative account vividly describes the founding of the observatory by the millionaire James Lick, as well as the pioneering role that Captain Richard Floyd played in its eight-year construction. The author details the personalities, the many unique circumstances, and the extraordinary production obstacles that were involved in the building of the first high-altitude astronomical observatory, which was finally opened as part of the University of California on June 1, 1888. Based on exhaustive research, this work makes a valuable contribution to the history of astronomy. The volume is enhanced by a fascinating collection of original photographs from the period that are of great historical interest. James Lick's Monument will appeal to a wide audience, including professional and amateur astronomers, historians of science, and all other readers interested in astronomy and its history.
