Author: Benjamin Martin
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Languages : en
Pages : 57
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The Theory of Comets, Illustrated, in Four Parts. ... The Whole Adapted To, and Exemplified in the Orbit of the Comet of the Year 1682, Whose Return is Now Near at Hand. By Benjamin Martin
Author: Benjamin Martin
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Languages : en
Pages : 57
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 57
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The Theory of Comets
Author: Benjamin Martin
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Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 57
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
The Theory of Comets
Author: Benjamin Martin
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Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 57
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 57
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The Theory of Comets, Illustrated, in Four Parts
Author: Benjamin Martin
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Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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The Theory of Comets, Illustrated ...
Author: Benjamin Martin
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Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 57
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Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 57
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The Theory of Comets ... The Whole Adapted To, and Exemplified in the Orbit of the Comet of the Year 1682, Etc
Author: Benjamin MARTIN (Optician.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Languages : en
Pages : 78
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The Theory of Comets, Illustrated, in Four Parts. I. An Essay on the Natural History and Philosophy of Comets; Being the Substance of All that Has Been Hitherto Published on that Head. II. Tables, Containing the Elements of the Theory of a Comet's Motion, (in a Parabola Or an Ellipsis) with Their Nature and Use Explained. III. The Method of Constructing the Orbit of Any Comet, and Computing Its Place Therein; Its Latitude and Longitude, as Seen from the Earth Or Sun; Its Distance, Velocity, Magnitude, Length of Tail, and Other Particulars Relative Thereto. IV. The Method of Delineating the Visible Path of a Comet in the Heavens, on the Surface of a Celestial Globe; and for Drawing the Trajectory by Protraction with Scale and Compasses. The Whole Adapted To, and Exemplified in the Orbit of the Comet of the Year 1682, Whose Return is Now Near at Hand
Author: Benjamin Martin
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
Author: Sara Schechner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691227675
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities. Although these beliefs became spurned as "vulgar superstitions" by the elite before the end of the century, she shows that they were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley, contributing to their theories in subtle yet profound ways. Schechner weaves together many strands of thought: views of comets as signs and causes of social and physical changes; vigilance toward monsters and prodigies as indicators of God's will; Christian eschatology; scientific interpretations of Scripture; astrological prognostication and political propaganda; and celestial mechanics and astrophysics. This exploration of the interplay between high and low beliefs about nature leads to the conclusion that popular and long-held views of comets as divine signs were not overturned by astronomical discoveries. Indeed, they became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691227675
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities. Although these beliefs became spurned as "vulgar superstitions" by the elite before the end of the century, she shows that they were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley, contributing to their theories in subtle yet profound ways. Schechner weaves together many strands of thought: views of comets as signs and causes of social and physical changes; vigilance toward monsters and prodigies as indicators of God's will; Christian eschatology; scientific interpretations of Scripture; astrological prognostication and political propaganda; and celestial mechanics and astrophysics. This exploration of the interplay between high and low beliefs about nature leads to the conclusion that popular and long-held views of comets as divine signs were not overturned by astronomical discoveries. Indeed, they became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built.
Halley's Comet
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Category : Halley's comet
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Category : Halley's comet
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Journal of the Statistical Society of London
Author: Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain)
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Published papers whose appeal lies in their subject-matter rather than their technical statistical contents. Medical, social, educational, legal,demographic and governmental issues are of particular concern.
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Published papers whose appeal lies in their subject-matter rather than their technical statistical contents. Medical, social, educational, legal,demographic and governmental issues are of particular concern.