Author: William Joseph Hussey
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Category : Double stars
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Lick Observatory Papers
Author: William Joseph Hussey
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Category : Double stars
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Publisher:
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Category : Double stars
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Eye on the Sky
Author: Donald E. Osterbrock
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520268695
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 325
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The world's first mountain-top observatory and America's first big-science research center, Lick Observatory exemplifies astronomy's dramatic development in the past century. A dedicated Confederate naval officer and his jack-of-all-trades foreman used the bequest of a miserly California eccentric to transform an isolated mountain peak into the world's premier research observatory. Its first staff included a director from West Point and three of the outstanding astronomers of their time. Since its dedication in 1888, Lick Observatory has been the site of many of the most important discoveries in astronomy. Eye on the Sky presents Lick Observatory from the point of view of the people who breathed life into its giant telescopes. Their community was both constant and constantly transformed, shaped by workers famous and unknown who made it their home. The authors also explain in terms anyone can understand the laboratory advances that were adapted to telescopes to make them more powerful, and the conceptual breakthroughs that discoveries at the telescope helped bring about. The men and women who went to the top of Mount Hamilton in search of greater knowledge of the skies helped to change our conception of the universe and our place in it . They were people with personal and political lives as well as scientific careers, and their story illuminates a time and a place where foundations were laid for the discoveries of the next century.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520268695
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The world's first mountain-top observatory and America's first big-science research center, Lick Observatory exemplifies astronomy's dramatic development in the past century. A dedicated Confederate naval officer and his jack-of-all-trades foreman used the bequest of a miserly California eccentric to transform an isolated mountain peak into the world's premier research observatory. Its first staff included a director from West Point and three of the outstanding astronomers of their time. Since its dedication in 1888, Lick Observatory has been the site of many of the most important discoveries in astronomy. Eye on the Sky presents Lick Observatory from the point of view of the people who breathed life into its giant telescopes. Their community was both constant and constantly transformed, shaped by workers famous and unknown who made it their home. The authors also explain in terms anyone can understand the laboratory advances that were adapted to telescopes to make them more powerful, and the conceptual breakthroughs that discoveries at the telescope helped bring about. The men and women who went to the top of Mount Hamilton in search of greater knowledge of the skies helped to change our conception of the universe and our place in it . They were people with personal and political lives as well as scientific careers, and their story illuminates a time and a place where foundations were laid for the discoveries of the next century.
Selected Papers and Proceedings
Author: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
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List of members in volumes for 1892-99, 1901-05.
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
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List of members in volumes for 1892-99, 1901-05.
The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Catalogue of the Publications of the University of California Press
Author: University of California, Berkeley
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Collected Papers
Author: Charles Atwood Kofoid
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Collected Papers
Author: Ruliff Stephen Holway
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Astronomical Papers
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Author: Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Publisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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University of California Publications
Author: University of California, Berkeley
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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