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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Results of Astronomical Observations Made at the Observatory of the University, Durham, from ....
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Results of Astronomical Observations, Made at the Observatory of the University, Durham, from January, 1846, to ... [April, 1852], Under the Direction of the Rev. Temple Chevallier...
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Author: University of Durham. ObservatoryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Results of Astronomical Observations Made at the Observatory of the University Durham
Author: Richard Christopher CarringtonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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British University Observatories 1772–1939
Author: Roger HutchinsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351954520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
British University Observatories fills a gap in the historiography of British astronomy by offering the histories of observatories identified as a group by their shared characteristics. The first full histories of the Oxford and Cambridge observatories are here central to an explanatory history of each of the six that undertook research before World War II - Oxford, Dunsink, Cambridge, Durham, Glasgow and London. Each struggled to evolve in the middle ground between the royal observatories and those of the 'Grand Amateurs' in the nineteenth century. Fundamental issues are how and why astronomy came into the universities, how research was reconciled with teaching, lack of endowment, and response to the challenge of astrophysics. One organizing theme is the central importance of the individual professor-directors in determining the fortunes of these observatories, the community of assistants, and their role in institutional politics sometimes of the murkiest kind, patronage networks and discipline shaping coteries. The use of many primary sources illustrates personal motivations and experience. This book will intrigue anyone interested in the history of astronomy, of telescopes, of scientific institutions, and of the history of universities. The history of each individual observatory can easily be followed from foundation to 1939, or compared to experience elsewhere across the period. Astronomy is competitive and international, and the British experience is contextualised by comparison for the first time to those in Germany, France, Italy and the USA.
Monthly Notices of the Astronomical Society of London
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Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Contributions from the Observatory of Columbia University, New York
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
Author: Smithsonian InstitutionPublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
A Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodicals, (1665 to 1882)
Author: Henry Carrington BoltonPublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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