Greenwich Observatory: Recent history (1836-1975), by A.J. Meadows
Author | : Eric G. Forbes |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis Group |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Astronomical observatories |
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Author | : Eric G. Forbes |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis Group |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Astronomical observatories |
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Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : 0521242568 |
Author | : P. Kenneth Seidelmann |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2020-06-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3030436314 |
This edited volume charts the history of celestial navigation over the course of five centuries. Written by a group of historians and scientists, it analyzes how competing navigation systems, technologies, and institutions emerged and developed, with a focus on the major players in the US and the UK. The history covers the founding of the Royal Observatory; the first printing of a Nautical Almanac; the founding of the US and UK Nautical Almanac Offices; the creation of international standards for reference systems and astronomical constants; and the impact of 20th century technology on the field, among other topics. Additionally, the volume analyzes the present role and status of celestial navigation, particularly with respect to modern radio and satellite navigation systems. With its diverse authorship and nontechnical language, this book will appeal to any reader interested in the history of science, technology, astronomy, and navigation over the ages.
Author | : John Lankford |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 2013-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136508341 |
This Encyclopedia traces the history of the oldest science from the ancient world to the space age in over 300 entries by leading experts.
Author | : Lee T. Macdonald |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0822983494 |
Kew Observatory was originally built in 1769 for King George III, a keen amateur astronomer, so that he could observe the transit of Venus. By the mid-nineteenth century, it was a world-leading center for four major sciences: geomagnetism, meteorology, solar physics, and standardization. Long before government cutbacks forced its closure in 1980, the observatory was run by both major bodies responsible for the management of science in Britain: first the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and then, from 1871, the Royal Society. Kew Observatory influenced and was influenced by many of the larger developments in the physical sciences during the second half of the nineteenth century, while many of the major figures involved were in some way affiliated with Kew. Lee T. Macdonald explores the extraordinary story of this important scientific institution as it rose to prominence during the Victorian era. His book offers fresh new insights into key historical issues in nineteenth-century science: the patronage of science; relations between science and government; the evolution of the observatory sciences; and the origins and early years of the National Physical Laboratory, once an extension of Kew and now the largest applied physics organization in the United Kingdom.
Author | : P. Beer |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 653 |
Release | : 2016-06-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1483160912 |
Vistas in Astronomy
Author | : William Sheehan |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2021-05-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3030542181 |
The 1846 discovery of Neptune is one of the most remarkable stories in the history of science and astronomy. John Couch Adams and U.J. Le Verrier both investigated anomalies in the motion of Uranus and independently predicted the existence and location of this new planet. However, interpretations of the events surrounding this discovery have long been mired in controversy. Who first predicted the new planet? Was the discovery just a lucky fluke? The ensuing storm engaged astronomers across Europe and the United States. Written by an international group of authors, this pathbreaking volume explores in unprecedented depth the contentious history of Neptune’s discovery, drawing on newly discovered documents and re-examining the historical record. In so doing, we gain new understanding of the actions of key individuals and sharper insights into the pressures acting on them. The discovery of Neptune was a captivating mathematical moment and was widely regarded at the time as the greatest triumph of Newton’s theory of universal gravitation. The book therefore begins with Newton’s development of his ideas of gravity. It examines too the mathematical calculations related to the discovery of Neptune, using new theories and tools provided by advances in celestial mechanics over the past twenty years. Through this process, the book analyzes why the mathematical approach that proved so potent in the discovery of Neptune, grand as it was, could not help produce similar discoveries despite several valiant attempts. In the final chapters, we see how the discovery of Neptune marked the end of one quest—to explain the wayward motions of Uranus—and the beginning of another quest to fill in the map and understand the nature of the outer Solar System, whose icy precincts Neptune, as the outermost of the giant planets, bounds.
Author | : Allan Chapman |
Publisher | : Lion Books |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2018-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0745980309 |
This book will take the story of astronomy on from where Allan Chapman left it in Stargazers, and bring it almost up to date, with the developments and discoveries of the last three centuries. He covers the big names - Halley, Hooke, Herschel, Hubble and Hoyle; and includes the women who pushed astronomy forward, from Caroline Herschel to the Victorian women astronomers. He includes the big discoveries and the huge ideas, from the Milky War, to the Big Bang, the mighty atom, and the question of life on other planets. And he brings in the contributions made in the US, culminating in their race with the USSR to get a man on the moon, before turning to the explosion of interest in astronomy that was pioneered by Sir Patrick Moore and The Sky at Night.
Author | : David C. Lindberg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780521571999 |
A new and comprehensive examination of the history of the modern physical and mathematical sciences.