Download or read book David Gill Man and Astronomer written by George Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Astronomer s Chair written by Omar W. Nasim and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astronomer’s observing chair as both image and object, and the story it tells about a particular kind of science and a particular view of history. The astronomer’s chair is a leitmotif in the history of astronomy, appearing in hundreds of drawings, prints, and photographs from a variety of sources. Nineteenth-century stargazers in particular seemed eager to display their observing chairs—task-specific, often mechanically adjustable observatory furniture designed for use in conjunction with telescopes. But what message did they mean to send with these images? In The Astronomer’s Chair, Omar W. Nasim considers these specialized chairs as both image and object, offering an original framework for linking visual and material cultures. Observing chairs, Nasim ingeniously argues, showcased and embodied forms of scientific labor, personae, and bodily practice that appealed to bourgeois sensibilities. Viewing image and object as connected parts of moral, epistemic, and visual economies of empire, Nasim shows that nineteenth-century science was represented in terms of comfort and energy, and that “manly” postures of Western astronomers at work in specialized chairs were contrasted pointedly with images of “effete” and cross-legged “Oriental” astronomers. Extending his historical analysis into the twentieth century, Nasim reexamines what he argues to be a famous descendant of the astronomer’s chair: Freud’s psychoanalytic couch, which directed observations not outward toward the stars but inward toward the stratified universe of the psyche. But whether in conjunction with the mind or the heavens, the observing chair was a point of entry designed for specialists that also portrayed widely held assumptions about who merited epistemic access to these realms in the first place. With more than 100 illustrations, many in color; flexibound.
Download or read book English Mechanic and Mirror of Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book David Gill Man and Astronomer written by George Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Mechanic and Mirror of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Observatory written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Astronomy written by John Lankford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia traces the history of the oldest science from the ancient world to the space age in over 300 entries by leading experts.
Download or read book Science Progress written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Mechanic and World of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nature written by Sir Norman Lockyer and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn written by Pieter C. van der Kruit and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacobus C. Kapteyn (1851-1922) was a Dutch astronomer who contributed heavily to major catalogs of star positions, such as the Cape Photographic Durchmusterung and the Harvard-Groningen Durchmusterung, and arranged extensive international collaboration through his Plan of Selected Areas. He contributed to the establishment of statistical astronomy and structure and dynamics of the Sidereal System. All aspects of Kapteyn’s life are discussed, from his birth in Barneveld, the Netherlands, to his death in Amsterdam, and his entire resume of scientific achievements in between. Kapteyn had some conflicts with others in his field, especially after the world became divided on how to handle scientific contributions from Germany post-World War I. Both Kapteyn's struggles and achievements are written against the backdrop of both the historical context of the world at that time as well as the scientific one.
Download or read book American Astronomy written by John Lankford and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-05-15 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on a period that saw fundamental changes in the nature and content of astronomy, including the rise of astrophysics, Lankford has compiled remarkable data, such as the number of people with and without doctorates, the number who taught in colleges or universities versus those involved in industrial or government work, and the number of women versus men. He also addresses the crucial question of power within the community - what it meant, which astronomers had it, and what they did with it.
Download or read book Astronomy for the Man in the Street on Our Solar and Planetary System written by E. A. Selley and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Knowledge written by Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
