Author: Edmond Halley
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Five Halley Lectures
Author: Edmond Halley
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Publisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Nature
Author: Sir Norman Lockyer
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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Northern Star
Author: R. Peter Broughton
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442630191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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John Stanley Plaskett was Canada’s pre-eminent astronomer in the first half of the twentieth century. His legacy lives on in the observatory he founded in Victoria, British Columbia, and the reputation he built for Canada as a nation making vital contributions to basic science. Plaskett’s pioneering work with the most massive stars and his definitive determination of the rotation of the Milky Way Galaxy earned him international recognition of the highest order. Northern Star explores Plaskett’s unorthodox and fascinating life from his rural roots near Woodstock, Ontario through his days as a technician at the University of Toronto to his initiation in astronomy at the Dominion Observatory in Ottawa. His greatest achievements followed after he persuaded the government of Canada, in spite of the strictures of the First World War, to finance what was then the world’s largest operational telescope. Peter Broughton’s accessible and engaging prose illuminates Plaskett’s numerous achievements and the social, political, economic, and religious milieu surrounding them. This richly illustrated volume invites readers to understand the pull that Plaskett’s passions, personality, and motivations exerted on him during his lifetime.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442630191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
John Stanley Plaskett was Canada’s pre-eminent astronomer in the first half of the twentieth century. His legacy lives on in the observatory he founded in Victoria, British Columbia, and the reputation he built for Canada as a nation making vital contributions to basic science. Plaskett’s pioneering work with the most massive stars and his definitive determination of the rotation of the Milky Way Galaxy earned him international recognition of the highest order. Northern Star explores Plaskett’s unorthodox and fascinating life from his rural roots near Woodstock, Ontario through his days as a technician at the University of Toronto to his initiation in astronomy at the Dominion Observatory in Ottawa. His greatest achievements followed after he persuaded the government of Canada, in spite of the strictures of the First World War, to finance what was then the world’s largest operational telescope. Peter Broughton’s accessible and engaging prose illuminates Plaskett’s numerous achievements and the social, political, economic, and religious milieu surrounding them. This richly illustrated volume invites readers to understand the pull that Plaskett’s passions, personality, and motivations exerted on him during his lifetime.
Bedrock
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Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Languages : en
Pages : 824
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The Earth's Magnestism
Author: Louis Agricola Bauer
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Category : Geomagnetism
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Category : Geomagnetism
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Athenaeum
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Languages : en
Pages : 1276
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Languages : en
Pages : 1276
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Lectures on Natural Philosophy
Author: Margaret Bryan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108038085
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 471
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The lectures, published in 1806, of Margaret Bryan, a teacher who was an early proponent of scientific education for women.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108038085
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 471
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The lectures, published in 1806, of Margaret Bryan, a teacher who was an early proponent of scientific education for women.
“The” Athenaeum
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Languages : en
Pages : 960
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Languages : en
Pages : 960
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5 bookseller's catalogues
Author: Edward Howell (bookseller.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Lectures on Natural Philosophy ... With an appendix: containing ... astronomical and geographical problems, etc. [With a portrait.]
Author: Margaret BRYAN (Natural Philosopher.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Languages : en
Pages : 510
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