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Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 1, The Mount Wilson Observatory: Breaking the Code of Cosmic Evolution
Author: Allan Sandage
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521830782
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Since its foundation in 1904, the Mount Wilson Observatory has been at the centre of the development of astrophysics. Perched atop a mountain wilderness, two mammoth solar tower telescopes and the 60- and 100-inch behemoth night-time reflectors were all the largest in the world. Research has centred around two main themes - the evolution of stars and the development of the universe. This first volume in a series of five histories of the Carnegie Institution describes the people and events, the challenges and successes that the Observatory has witnessed. It includes biographical sketches of forty of the most famous Mount Wilson pioneer astronomers working during the first half of the twentieth century. Contemporary photographs illustrate the development and use of some of the innovative instruments that filled the observatory during this time. This story brings together the elements that formed modern theories of stellar evolution and cosmology.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521830782
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Since its foundation in 1904, the Mount Wilson Observatory has been at the centre of the development of astrophysics. Perched atop a mountain wilderness, two mammoth solar tower telescopes and the 60- and 100-inch behemoth night-time reflectors were all the largest in the world. Research has centred around two main themes - the evolution of stars and the development of the universe. This first volume in a series of five histories of the Carnegie Institution describes the people and events, the challenges and successes that the Observatory has witnessed. It includes biographical sketches of forty of the most famous Mount Wilson pioneer astronomers working during the first half of the twentieth century. Contemporary photographs illustrate the development and use of some of the innovative instruments that filled the observatory during this time. This story brings together the elements that formed modern theories of stellar evolution and cosmology.
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Pages : 180
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Pages : 180
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The Building of the Roman Aqueducts
Author: Esther Boise Van Deman
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Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Pages : 584
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Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America: The Border Colonies and the Southern Colonies
Author: Elizabeth Donnan
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Languages : en
Pages : 744
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Languages : en
Pages : 744
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Contributions to Embryology
Author: Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Pages : 692
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The Carnegie Maya
Author: Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Dispersed and out-of-print for fifty years, more than 350 reports from the Maya program are now available in this single volume. Reports from the institution's annual Year Books and other materials collected here tell the history of Maya research through firsthand accounts by participating scholars and reveal the progression of Mesoamerican
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Pages : 832
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Dispersed and out-of-print for fifty years, more than 350 reports from the Maya program are now available in this single volume. Reports from the institution's annual Year Books and other materials collected here tell the history of Maya research through firsthand accounts by participating scholars and reveal the progression of Mesoamerican
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Pages : 120
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Carnegie Institution of Washington
Author: Carnegie Institution Washington, DC
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Pages : 15
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The Earth, the Heavens and the Carnegie Institution of Washington
Author: Gregory Good
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
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Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the History of Geophysics Series, Volume 5. To reduce errors in geomagnetic measurements, the research vessel Carnegie was specially constructed of non-magnetic materials. While refueling in Apia Harbor, Samoa, November 29, 1929, an explosion occurred, destroying the ship and taking the lives of Captain J. P. Ault and the ship's cabin boy. In her 20 years, Carnegie cruised 342,681 miles of the world's oceans.
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the History of Geophysics Series, Volume 5. To reduce errors in geomagnetic measurements, the research vessel Carnegie was specially constructed of non-magnetic materials. While refueling in Apia Harbor, Samoa, November 29, 1929, an explosion occurred, destroying the ship and taking the lives of Captain J. P. Ault and the ship's cabin boy. In her 20 years, Carnegie cruised 342,681 miles of the world's oceans.