Author:
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422381731
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 95, no. 4)
Author:
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422381731
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422381731
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 117, No. 4, 1973)
Author:
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422371183
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422371183
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 95, no. 1)
Author:
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422381700
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422381700
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society
Author: London Mathematical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
"Papers presented to J. E. Littlewood on his 80th birthday" issued as 3d ser., v. 14 A, 1965.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
"Papers presented to J. E. Littlewood on his 80th birthday" issued as 3d ser., v. 14 A, 1965.
Circular
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Index of Fishery Biological Papers by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Authors Appearing in Nongovernment Publications, 1940-56
Author: Lola T. Dees
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 96, no. 4)
Author:
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422381793
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422381793
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 120, No. 3, 1976)
Author:
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370995
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370995
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 120, No. 2, 1976)
Author:
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370988
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370988
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Charles Olivier and the Rise of Meteor Science
Author: Richard Taibi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319445189
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
This fascinating portrait of an amateur astronomy movement tells the story of how Charles Olivier recruited a hard-working cadre of citizen scientists to rehabilitate the study of meteors. By 1936, Olivier and members of his American Meteor Society had succeeded in disproving an erroneous idea about meteor showers. Using careful observations, they restored the public’s trust in predictions about periodic showers and renewed respect for meteor astronomy among professional astronomers in the United States. Charles Olivier and his society of observers who were passionate about watching for meteors in the night sky left a major impact on the field. In addition to describing Olivier’s career and describing his struggles with competitive colleagues in a hostile scientific climate, the author provides biographies of some of the scores of women and men of all ages who aided Olivier in making shower observations, from the Leonids and Perseids and others. Half of these amateur volunteers were from 13 to 25 years of age. Their work allowed Olivier and the AMS to contradict the fallacious belief in stationary and long-enduring meteor showers, bringing the theory of their origin into alignment with celestial mechanics. Thanks to Olivier and his collaborators, the study of meteors took a great leap forward in the twentieth century to earn a place as a worthy topic of study among professional astronomers.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319445189
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
This fascinating portrait of an amateur astronomy movement tells the story of how Charles Olivier recruited a hard-working cadre of citizen scientists to rehabilitate the study of meteors. By 1936, Olivier and members of his American Meteor Society had succeeded in disproving an erroneous idea about meteor showers. Using careful observations, they restored the public’s trust in predictions about periodic showers and renewed respect for meteor astronomy among professional astronomers in the United States. Charles Olivier and his society of observers who were passionate about watching for meteors in the night sky left a major impact on the field. In addition to describing Olivier’s career and describing his struggles with competitive colleagues in a hostile scientific climate, the author provides biographies of some of the scores of women and men of all ages who aided Olivier in making shower observations, from the Leonids and Perseids and others. Half of these amateur volunteers were from 13 to 25 years of age. Their work allowed Olivier and the AMS to contradict the fallacious belief in stationary and long-enduring meteor showers, bringing the theory of their origin into alignment with celestial mechanics. Thanks to Olivier and his collaborators, the study of meteors took a great leap forward in the twentieth century to earn a place as a worthy topic of study among professional astronomers.