Author: Sarah Frances Whiting
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: Elementary Science Study (Newton, Mass.)
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 758

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Author: William Wallace Payne
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 748

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Author: Roger Nelson Clark
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521361552
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Atlas over de vigtigste galakser og nebuloser, som kan ses i teleskop af amatørastronomer.

Author: Philip C. Plait
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471422075
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Advance praise for Philip Plait s Bad Astronomy "Bad Astronomy is just plain good! Philip Plait clears up everymisconception on astronomy and space you never knew you sufferedfrom." --Stephen Maran, Author of Astronomy for Dummies and editorof The Astronomy and Astrophysics Encyclopedia "Thank the cosmos for the bundle of star stuff named Philip Plait,who is the world s leading consumer advocate for quality science inspace and on Earth. This important contribution to science willrest firmly on my reference library shelf, ready for easy accessthe next time an astrologer calls." --Dr. Michael Shermer,Publisher of Skeptic magazine, monthly columnist for ScientificAmerican, and author of The Borderlands of Science "Philip Plait has given us a readable, erudite, informative,useful, and entertaining book. Bad Astronomy is Good Science. Verygood science..." --James "The Amazing" Randi, President, JamesRandi Educational Foundation, and author of An Encyclopedia ofClaims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural "Bad Astronomy is a fun read. Plait is wonderfully witty andeducational as he debunks the myths, legends, and 'conspiraciesthat abound in our society. 'The Truth Is Out There' and it's inthis book. I loved it!" --Mike Mullane, Space Shuttle astronaut andauthor of Do Your Ears Pop in Space?

Author: John Hall Taylor
Publisher:
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Category : Astronomical instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Sarah Frances Whiting
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330049051
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Excerpt from Daytime and Evening Exercises in Astronomy, for Schools and Colleges Astronomy is the last of the sciences to use the laboratory method in teaching its elementary classes. The reason of this is not far to seek. Since no instrument has been invented capable of piercing the clouds, observational work has always been dependent on the caprice of the weather. Photography now furnishes perfect representations of sun, moon, planets, and stars, for daytime study; also many forms of illustrative apparatus can be used by the student to awake and cultivate his imagination and furnish, at firsthand, data for scientific reasoning. This oldest of the sciences, which has heretofore been a rigid discipline for the few, should now take its place beside the others as a training in the scientific method for the many who pursue the subject chiefly for information and culture. The management of schools and colleges should make the same allowance of time and money for laboratory instruction in this as in the other sciences; there should be a laboratory, a demonstrator, and fixed hours for students' daytime work. Besides the ordinary instruments of an observatory there should be collections of photographs, charts, and apparatus for the students' own handling. The only astronomical laboratory books known to the writer are those of the South Kensington School of Science in London, and of Miss Byrd and Professor Robert Willson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: G.D. Roth
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642482821
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 581

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Several decades have elapsed since the publication of any similar book in the German language. The lack of such a book has been felt keenly by all friends of astronomy. In our space age, astronomical knowledge arouses public interest more and more. Practical observation at the telescope depends more than anything else on such knowledge. The educational value of such a training is undisputed. On the other hand, the work of the amateur astronomer can also contribute essentially to the work of the professionals. It is from these points of view that this handbook aims to help with versatile advice. At the same time, the book intends to show the wide range of applied astronomy, as it presents itself to the friend of the stars; in mathematical-physical fields, in precision mechanics and optics, and last but not least in the area of social relations. Beyond the circle of amateur astronomers the book is addressed to lecturers, teachers, students and pupils. It wishes to serve them as a guide to "astronomical experiments", which we suggest should be performed in primary and secondary schools, specialist colleges, and extramural courses.

Author: Paul Grattan
Publisher: Salmon Publishing
ISBN: 9781907056765
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 79

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A recessional for the last decade, eight years in the making.