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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Bulletin
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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The Best Reading: Hints on the Selection of Books
Author: Frederic Beecher Perkins
Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's sons [c1877]
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's sons [c1877]
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Catalogue of the Public Library, of Concord, N.H.
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Catalogue of the Books in the Circulating Library ...
Author: Toronto Public Libraries
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Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Languages : en
Pages : 388
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The American Mathematical Monthly
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Category : Mathematicians
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Includes section "Recent publications."
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Category : Mathematicians
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Includes section "Recent publications."
Catalogue of the Illinois State Library
Author: Illinois State Library
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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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.
Biographical Memoirs
Author: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Publisher: National Academies
ISBN:
Category : Scientists
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
List of papers contained in v. 1-9 is given in National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings ... Index ... 1915-24, 1926.
Publisher: National Academies
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Category : Scientists
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
List of papers contained in v. 1-9 is given in National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings ... Index ... 1915-24, 1926.
Benjamin Peirce, 1809-1880
Author: Raymond Clare Archibald
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Category : Mathematicians
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : Mathematicians
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Report of the Board of Regents
Author: California. University. Regents
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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