The Angel Of An Astronomer
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Author | : Linda Rae Sande |
Publisher | : Twisted Teacup Publishing |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2020-05-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1946271276 |
A sensual tale of a knight, an angel and heavenly bodies George, Viscount Hexham, is quite literally thunderstruck when he meets Lady Anne in the park, and he can’t get her off his mind. Her brother, Gabe, is happy to act as a matchmaker, never once mentioning he might already be acting on behalf of the other side. Can two who are so perfectly matched end up married before Anne must endure her first Season in London? Meanwhile, when a neighbor appears to be spying on George’s twin sister through the telescope in his garden observatory, an incensed Lady Angelica is determined to give him a piece of her mind. Sir Benjamin may end up with her heart as well, as mistletoe and moonlight work their magic in The Angel of an Astronomer.
Author | : Linda Rae Sande |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-02-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781946271280 |
When a neighbour appears to be spying on her from his garden observatory, an incensed Lady Angelica is determined to give him a piece of her mind. Will Sir Benjamin end up with her heart as well, as mistletoe and moonlight work their magic?
Author | : George Johnson |
Publisher | : WW Norton |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2006-05-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393328562 |
"A short, excellent account of [Leavitt’s] extraordinary life and achievements." —Simon Singh, New York Times Book Review George Johnson brings to life Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who found the key to the vastness of the universe—in the form of a “yardstick” suitable for measuring it. Unknown in our day, Leavitt was no more recognized in her own: despite her enormous achievement, she was employed by the Harvard Observatory as a mere number-cruncher, at a wage not dissimilar from that of workers in the nearby textile mills. Miss Leavitt’s Stars uncovers her neglected history.
Author | : Jonathan Ben-Dov |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1479873977 |
This work explores the tension between the hegemony of central scientific traditions and local scientific enterprises, showing the relevance of ancient data to contemporary postcolonial historiography of science.
Author | : D. M. Urquidi |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2011-06-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1257753797 |
The author has unraveled the fascinating history of Astronomy by the Maya before the arrival of Columbus, and it does a decent job. The focus is on interpreting the intricate, highly symbolic, artifacts left behind by them, as well as by the Aztec and the Inca. In addition, those of some North and South American tribes, especially when their symbols are related to ancient astronomy. The writer covers a breadth of scientific, astronomical and historical information making bold, but often plausible, interpretations. The author may take you places you've never even imagined.
Author | : Donovan Moore |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2020-03-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0674237374 |
A New Scientist Book of the Year A Physics Today Book of the Year A Science News Book of the Year The history of science is replete with women getting little notice for their groundbreaking discoveries. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a tireless innovator who correctly theorized the substance of stars, was one of them. It was not easy being a woman of ambition in early twentieth-century England, much less one who wished to be a scientist. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin overcame prodigious obstacles to become a woman of many firsts: the first to receive a PhD in astronomy from Radcliffe College, the first promoted to full professor at Harvard, the first to head a department there. And, in what has been called “the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy,” she was the first to describe what stars are made of. Payne-Gaposchkin lived in a society that did not know what to make of a determined schoolgirl who wanted to know everything. She was derided in college and refused a degree. As a graduate student, she faced formidable skepticism. Revolutionary ideas rarely enjoy instantaneous acceptance, but the learned men of the astronomical community found hers especially hard to take seriously. Though welcomed at the Harvard College Observatory, she worked for years without recognition or status. Still, she accomplished what every scientist yearns for: discovery. She revealed the atomic composition of stars—only to be told that her conclusions were wrong by the very man who would later show her to be correct. In What Stars Are Made Of, Donovan Moore brings this remarkable woman to life through extensive archival research, family interviews, and photographs. Moore retraces Payne-Gaposchkin’s steps with visits to cramped observatories and nighttime bicycle rides through the streets of Cambridge, England. The result is a story of devotion and tenacity that speaks powerfully to our own time.
Author | : Marcelo Gleiser |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780393324310 |
Explores the shared quest of ancient prophets and today's astronomers to explain the strange phenomena of our skies-from the apocalypse foretold in Revelations to modern science's ongoing identification of multiple cataclysmic threats, including the impact of comets and asteroids on earthly life, the likelihood of future collisions, the meaning of solar eclipses and the death of stars, the implications of black holes for time travel, and the ultimate fate of the universe and time.
Author | : Margaret Barker |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2012-11-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567362469 |
Margaret Barker traces the veneration of the Mother of the Lord back to the Old Testament and a female deity in the first Jewish temple.
Author | : Tracy Daugherty |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2019-04-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300239890 |
Explore the evolution of astronomy from Dante to Einstein, as seen through the eyes of trailblazing Victorian astronomer Mary Acworth Evershed In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867-1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as she grappled with apparent mistakes in Dante's Divine Comedy. Was Dante's astronomy unintelligible? Or was he, for a man of his time and place, as insightful as one could be about the sky? As the twentieth century began, women who wished to become professional astronomers faced difficult cultural barriers, but Evershed joined the British Astronomical Association and, from an Indian observatory, became an experienced observer of sunspots, solar eclipses, and variable stars. From the perspective of one remarkable amateur astronomer, readers will see how ideas developed during Galileo's time evolved or were discarded in Newtonian conceptions of the cosmos and then recast in Einstein's theories. The result is a book about the history of science but also a poetic meditation on literature, science, and the evolution of ideas.
Author | : Jo Dunkley |
Publisher | : Belknap Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2019-04-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0674984285 |
A BBC Sky at Night Best Astronomy and Space Book of the Year “[A] luminous guide to the cosmos...Jo Dunkley swoops from Earth to the observable limits, then explores stellar life cycles, dark matter, cosmic evolution and the soup-to-nuts history of the Universe.” —Nature “A grand tour of space and time, from our nearest planetary neighbors to the edge of the observable Universe...If you feel like refreshing your background knowledge...this little gem certainly won’t disappoint.” —Govert Schilling, BBC Sky at Night Most of us have heard of black holes and supernovas, galaxies and the Big Bang. But few understand more than the bare facts about the universe we call home. What is really out there? How did it all begin? Where are we going? Jo Dunkley begins in Earth’s neighborhood, explaining the nature of the Solar System, the stars in our night sky, and the Milky Way. She traces the evolution of the universe from the Big Bang fourteen billion years ago, past the birth of the Sun and our planets, to today and beyond. She then explains cutting-edge debates about such perplexing phenomena as the accelerating expansion of the universe and the possibility that our universe is only one of many. Our Universe conveys with authority and grace the thrill of scientific discovery and a contagious enthusiasm for the endless wonders of space-time.