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Author | : Smyth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : 1108066739 |
The astronomer John Lee (1783-66) inherited Hartwell House in Buckinghamshire in 1827. During its colourful history, the mansion had notably been occupied between 1809 and 1814 by the exiled court of Louis XVIII. Lee turned the house into something of a museum for his antiquarian and scientific interests, constructing an observatory to the design of the his close friend William Henry Smyth (1788-1865), after whom Lee named a lunar sea. A naval officer, Smyth had helped to found the Royal Geographical Society in 1830. His Sidereal Chromatics (1864) and The Sailor's Word-Book (1867) are also reissued in this series. This charming history and description of Hartwell, its grounds, buildings and contents, appeared in two volumes between 1851 and 1864, illuminating especially the practice of contemporary astronomy. Illustrated throughout, the second volume (1864) serves as a supplement, recording Smyth's researches in the years since the first volume went to press.
Author | : William Henry Smyth |
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Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1851 |
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Author | : William Henry Smyth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108066730 |
The astronomer John Lee (1783-66) inherited Hartwell House in Buckinghamshire in 1827. During its colourful history, the mansion had notably been occupied between 1809 and 1814 by the exiled court of Louis XVIII. Lee turned the house into something of a museum for his antiquarian and scientific interests, constructing an observatory to the design of the his close friend William Henry Smyth (1788-1865), after whom Lee named a lunar sea. A naval officer, Smyth had helped to found the Royal Geographical Society in 1830. His Sidereal Chromatics (1864) and The Sailor's Word-Book (1867) are also reissued in this series. This charming history and description of Hartwell, its grounds, buildings and contents, appeared in two volumes between 1851 and 1864, illuminating especially the practice of contemporary astronomy. Illustrated throughout, the second volume (1864) serves as a supplement, recording Smyth's researches in the years since the first volume went to press.
Author | : William Henry Smyth |
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Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
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Author | : William Henry Smyth |
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Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Hartwell (Buckinghamshire, England) |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 18?? |
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Author | : Tony Vernon-Harcourt |
Publisher | : Sacristy Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2024-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1789593174 |
The first-ever biography of Edward Vernon Harcourt, Archbishop of York from 1807 to 1847, and the last aristocrat to hold the office.
Author | : Hannah Smith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2006-06-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521828767 |
Author | : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
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Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Booksellers' catalogs |
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Author | : Clifford J. Cunningham |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2017-09-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 331958118X |
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.