The University Of Chicago Publications Of The Yerkes Observatory
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Author | : Donald E. Osterbrock |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226639444 |
Drawing on his experience as historian of astronomy, practicing astrophysicist, and director of Lick Observatory, Donald Osterbrock uncovers a chapter in the history of astronomy by providing the story of the Yerkes Observatory. "An excellent description of the ups and downs of a major observatory."—Jack Meadows, Nature "Historians are much indebted to Osterbrock for this new contribution to the fascinating story of twentieth-century American astronomy."—Adriaan Blaauw, Journal for the History of Astronomy "An important reference about one of the key American observatories of this century."—Woodruff T. Sullivan III, Physics Today
Author | : Yerkes Observatory |
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Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
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Author | : John Franch |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Capitalists and financiers |
ISBN | : 0252030990 |
"After losing his fortune and being jailed for financial improprieties in Philadelphia, Yerkes schemed his way out of prison. With his boundless ambition and entrepreneurial genius intact, he relocated to Chicago and made millions from questionable financial transactions, while at the same time forging one of the world's finest mass transit networks. Despite various philanthropic efforts, Yerkes and his methods were fiercely opposed by the press and public, and he left Chicago a bitter man. Moving to London, he organized much of the Underground, battled J. P. Morgan, and romanced Emilie Grigsby, the love of his life, before succumbing to kidney disease in 1905.".
Author | : Yerkes Observatory |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2019-04-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781011970278 |
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Author | : Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781017458817 |
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 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. 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 | : Jean-René Roy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1108417019 |
A thought provoking study of the powerful impact of images in guiding astronomers' understanding of galaxies through time.
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Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1903 |
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Author | : Edward Emerson Barnard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-08-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781107442870 |
Edward Emerson Barnard's Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way was originally published in two volumes in 1927. Together these volumes contained a wealth of information, including photographic plates of the most interesting portions of the Milky Way, descriptive text, charts, and data. Only 700 copies were printed, making the original edition a collector's item. Reproduced in print for the first time, this edition combines both volumes of Barnard's Atlas. It directly replicates Barnard's text, and contains high resolution images of the original photographic plates and charts, reordered so that they can be seen together. It also includes a biography of Barnard and his work, a Foreword and Addendum by Gerald Orin Dobek describing the importance of the Atlas and additions to this volume, and a pull-out section with a mosaic of all 50 plates combined in a single panorama.
Author | : Edwin Powell Hubble |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780300025002 |
No modern astronomer made a more profound contribution to our understanding of the cosmos than did Edwin Hubble, who first conclusively demonstrated that the universe is expanding. Basing his theory on the observation of the change in distanct galaxies, called red shift, Hubble showed that this is a Doppler effect, or alteration in the wavelength of light, resulting from the rapid motion of celestial objects away from Earth. In 1935, Hubble described his principal observations and conclusions in the Silliman lectures at Yale University. These lectures were published the following year as "The Realm of the Nebulae," which quickly became a classic work.
Author | : Donald E. Osterbrock |
Publisher | : University Science Books |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781891389344 |
Thoroughly revised and expanded throughout, the new edition is a graduate-level text and reference book on gaseous nebulae, nova and supernova remnants. Much of the new data and new images are from the Hubble Space Telescope with two wholly new chapters being added along with other new features. The previous edition which was tried and tested for thirty years has now been succeeded by a revised, updated, larger edition, which will be valuable to anyone seriously interested in astrophysics.