The Paris Meridian is the name of the line running north-south through the astronomical observatory in Paris. One of the original intentions behind the founding of the Paris Observatory was to determine and measure this line. The French government financed the Paris Academy of Sciences to do so in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. It employed both astronomers - people who study and measure the stars - and geodesists - people who study and measure the Earth. This book is about what they did and why.
This is the first English language presentation of this historical material....
The Paris Meridian is the name of the line running north-south through the astronomical observatory in Paris. One of the original intentions behind...
Supernovae are gigantic stellar explosions. The effects of these rare events pervade astronomy, creating and spreading the chemical elements, triggering the formation of new stars, creating black holes and pulsars. Originally published in 1978 and first published by Cambridge as this revised edition in 1985, is the story of supernovae. It captures the flavour of ancient astronomy and lays out the accidents, coincidences, false leads and flashes of inspiration that followed as astronomers grasped the implications behind the rare appearance of supernovae. Two supernovae, seen in 1572 and 1604,...
Supernovae are gigantic stellar explosions. The effects of these rare events pervade astronomy, creating and spreading the chemical elements, triggeri...
The Paris Meridian is the name of the line running north-south through the astronomical observatory in Paris. One of the original intentions behind the founding of the Paris Observatory was to determine and measure this line. The French government financed the Paris Academy of Sciences to do so in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. It employed both astronomers - people who study and measure the stars - and geodesists - people who study and measure the Earth. This book is about what they did and why.
This is the first English language presentation of this historical material....
The Paris Meridian is the name of the line running north-south through the astronomical observatory in Paris. One of the original intentions behind...
Landscapes only ever imagined before have finally become reality with recent advances in space exploration imaging and this book collects some of the greatest views and vistas of Mars, Venus Titan, Io and more in their full glory, with explanatory background to contextualize the foreign landforms of our Solar System. Here are literally 'other-worldly' visions of strange new scenes, all captured by the latest technology.The book shows and describes planetary landscapescaptured from their surface by landing and roving vehicles or by very low-flying spacecraft.There is more thanscientific...
Landscapes only ever imagined before have finally become reality with recent advances in space exploration imaging and this book collects some of the ...
This reference work gathers all of the latest research in the supernova field areas to create a definitive source book on supernovae, their remnants and related topics. It includes each distinct subdiscipline, including stellar types, progenitors, stellar evolution, nucleosynthesis of elements, supernova types, neutron stars and pulsars, black holes, swept up interstellar matter, cosmic rays, neutrinos from supernovae, supernova observations in different wavelengths, interstellar molecules and dust. While there is a great deal of primary and specialist literature on supernovae, with a...
This reference work gathers all of the latest research in the supernova field areas to create a definitive source book on supernovae, their remnant...
This book relates the history of asteroid discoveries and christenings, from those of the early pioneering giants of Hersehel and Piazzi to modern-day amateurs. Moving from history and anecdotal information to science, the book's structure is provided by the names of the asteroids, including one named after the author.
Names of celestial objects are a subjective human invention which serves only to help scientists remember what they are talking about. Thus the names of asteroids have a human significance for the discoverer, for other astronomers and for the wider community.
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This book relates the history of asteroid discoveries and christenings, from those of the early pioneering giants of Hersehel and Piazzi to modern-...
