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Author : David Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : 0748689281
This scientific history includes the story of Glasgow's big bang of 1863, the controversy over the position of Astronomer Royal for Scotland and a historical survey of the eight observatories that once populated Glasgow.
Author : David Clarke
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780748678914
How Astronomy contributed to the educational enlightenment of Glasgow, to its society and to its commerce. The words 'Astronomy' and 'Glasgow' seem an incongruous juxtaposition, and yet the two are closely linked over 500 years of history. This is a tale of enlightenment and scientific progress at both institutional and public levels. Combined with the ambitions of civic commerce, it is a story populated with noteworthy personalities and intense rivalries.It is remarkable to realise that the first Astronomy teaching in the Glasgow 'Colledge' presented an Earth-centred Universe, prior to the Copernican revolution of the mid sixteenth Century. Glasgow was later known astronomically for the telescope observations of sunspots made by Wilson in the 1760s, but less well known are the ideas related to mono-chromaticity within light, to dew point and hoar frost, and Herschel's discovery of infra-red energy in solar radiation by application of Glasgow-made thermometers.This engrossing and entertaining scientific history includes the story of Glasgow's 'Big Bang' of 1863, the controversy over 'Astronomer Royal for Scotland' and a historical survey of the eight observatories that once populated Glasgow. David Clarke brings us a complex weave of science and accompanying social history in this unique and fascinating work.
Author : David Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0748678891
This engrossing and entertaining scientific history includes the story of Glasgow's 'Big Bang' of 1863, the controversy over 'Astronomer Royal for Scotland' and a historical survey of the eight observatories that once populated Glasgow.
Author : Thomas Reid
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748643394
Reconstructs Reid's career as a mathematician and natural philosopher for the first time
Author : Richard Rhodes
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781501105364
A “meticulously researched” (The New York Times Book Review) examination of energy transitions over time and an exploration of the current challenges presented by global warming, a surging world population, and renewable energy—from Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes. People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges. Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as we now turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy. “Entertaining and informative…a powerful look at the importance of science” (NPR.org), Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I, King James I, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford. In his “magisterial history…a tour de force of popular science” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Rhodes shows how breakthroughs in energy production occurred; from animal and waterpower to the steam engine, from internal-combustion to the electric motor. He looks at the current energy landscape, with a focus on how wind energy is competing for dominance with cast supplies of coal and natural gas. He also addresses the specter of global warming, and a population hurtling towards ten billion by 2100. Human beings have confronted the problem of how to draw energy from raw material since the beginning of time. Each invention, each discovery, each adaptation brought further challenges, and through such transformations, we arrived at where we are today. “A beautifully written, often inspiring saga of ingenuity and progress…Energy brings facts, context, and clarity to a key, often contentious subject” (Booklist, starred review).
Author : Alexander Broadie,Craig Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108420709
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the full range of achievements of the Scottish thinkers who so profoundly influenced western culture.
Author : Clifford J. Cunningham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319581187
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 Sir David Brewster in Scotland, the era's most prolific writer about the asteroids. He also examines the link between meteorites and asteroids, revealing a synergy between Ernst Chladni, Romantic symbolism, and the music of the spheres. Vesta was a lightning rod for controversy throughout the nineteenth century with observers arguing over its size and color, and the astounding notion that it was self-luminous. It was also a major force for change, as new methods in the field of celestial mechanics were developed to study the orbital perturbations it is subject to. A large selection of private correspondence and scientific papers complete the first comprehensive historical study of Vesta ever published. With a synoptic look at the four asteroids, Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta, Cunningham provides a valuable resource on asteroid origins and explains how they were integrated into the newly revealed solar system of the early nineteenth century.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : UCSC:32106016819325
Author : John Pringle NICHOL (Professor of Practical Astronomy in the University of Glasgow.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020470574
Author : John Pringle Nichol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : PRNC:32101058278035
Author : John Pringle NICHOL (Professor of Practical Astronomy in the University of Glasgow.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020470561
Author : W. T. Sullivan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1984-04-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 052125485X
Radio astronomy has revolutionized the course of modern astronomy. Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Jansky's discovery in 1933 of extraterrestrial radio emission, Professor Sullivan asked many of the pioneers in the field to set down their versions of events and the people who made them. Each of the score of contributors seeks to give a good 'feeling' for the times to the great majority of readers who will not have experienced them. Over 150 illustrations, mostly historical photographs of men and machines, enliven the various recollections and reflections. The list of contributors includes many of the key personalities and covers all the major laboratories and countries involved in radio astronomy before 1960. In addition to the radio astronomers themselves, there are contributions from optical astronomers and theorists closely related to the field, as well as historians of twentieth century astronomy.
Author : John Pringle NICHOL (Professor of Practical Astronomy in the University of Glasgow.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018267068
Author : Jean Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020320953
Author : Hasan Deniz,Lisa A. Borgerding
Publisher : Springer
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319909394
This edited book provides a global view on evolution education. It describes the state of evolution education in different countries that are representative of geographical regions around the globe such as Eastern Europe, Western Europe, North Africa, South Africa, North America, South America,Middle East, Far East, South East Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.Studies in evolution education literature can be divided into three main categories: (a) understanding the interrelationships among cognitive, affective, epistemological, and religious factors that are related to peoples’ views about evolution, (b) designing, implementing, evaluating evolution education curriculum that reflects contemporary evolution understanding, and (c) reducing antievolutionary attitudes. This volume systematically summarizes the evolution education literature across these three categories for each country or geographical region. The individual chapters thus include common elements that facilitate a cross-cultural meta-analysis. Written for a primarily academic audience, this book provides a much-needed common background for future evolution education research across the globe.
