Download or read book Results of Astronomical Observations Made During the Years 1834 5 6 7 8 at the Cape of Good Hope written by John Frederick William Herschel and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Results of Astronomical Observations Made During the Years 1834 5 6 7 8 at the Cape of Good Hope Being the Completion of a Telescopic Survey of the Whole Surface of the Visible Heavens Commenced in 1825 by Sir John F W Herschel written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Results of Astronomical Observations Made During the Years 1834 5 6 7 8 at the Cape of Good Hope written by Sir John Frederick William Herschel and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Results of Astronomical Observations Made During the Years 1834 5 6 7 8 at the Cape of Good Hope Being the Completion of a Telescopic Survey of the Whole Surface of the Visible Heavens Commenced in 1825 written by Sir John Frederick William Herschel and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Results of Astronomical Observations Made During the Years 1834 5 6 7 8 at the Cape of Good Hope Being the Completion of a Telescopic Survey of the Whole Surface of the Visible Heavens Commenced in 1825 written by John F. W. Herschel and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Results of Astronomical Observations Made During the Years 1834 5 6 7 8 at the Cape of Good Hope written by John-Frederik-William Herschel and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A catalogue of works in all departments of English literature written by Longmans, Green and co and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Observing by Hand written by Omar W. Nasim and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we are all familiar with the iconic pictures of the nebulae produced by the Hubble Space Telescope’s digital cameras. But there was a time, before the successful application of photography to the heavens, in which scientists had to rely on handmade drawings of these mysterious phenomena. Observing by Hand sheds entirely new light on the ways in which the production and reception of handdrawn images of the nebulae in the nineteenth century contributed to astronomical observation. Omar W. Nasim investigates hundreds of unpublished observing books and paper records from six nineteenth-century observers of the nebulae: Sir John Herschel; William Parsons, the third Earl of Rosse; William Lassell; Ebenezer Porter Mason; Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel; and George Phillips Bond. Nasim focuses on the ways in which these observers created and employed their drawings in data-driven procedures, from their choices of artistic materials and techniques to their practices and scientific observation. He examines the ways in which the act of drawing complemented the acts of seeing and knowing, as well as the ways that making pictures was connected to the production of scientific knowledge. An impeccably researched, carefully crafted, and beautifully illustrated piece of historical work, Observing by Hand will delight historians of science, art, and the book, as well as astronomers and philosophers.

Download or read book Publications of learned societies and periodicals in the library of the Smithsonian institution written by Smithsonian institution libr and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book John Herschel s Cape Voyage written by Steven Ruskin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1833 John Herschel sailed from London to Cape Town, southern Africa, to undertake (at his own expense) an astronomical exploration of the southern heavens, as well as a terrestrial exploration of the area around Cape Town. After his return to England in 1838, and as a result of his voyage, he was highly esteemed and became Britain's most recognized man of science. In 1847 his southern hemisphere astronomical observations were published as the Cape Results. The main argument of Ruskin's book is that Herschel's voyage and the publication of the Cape Results, in addition to their contemporary scientific importance, were also significant for nineteenth-century culture and politics. In this book it is demonstrated that the reason for Herschel's widespread cultural renown was the popular notion that his voyage to the Cape was a project aligned with the imperial ambitions of the British government. By leaving England for one of its colonies, and pursuing there a significant scientific project, Herschel was seen in the same light as other British men of science (like James Cook and Richard Lander) who had also undertaken voyages of exploration and discovery at the behest of their nation. It is then demonstrated that the production of the Cape Results, in part because of Herschel's status as Britain's scientific figurehead, was a significant political event. Herschel's decision to journey to the Cape for the purpose of surveying the southern heavens was of great significance to almost all of Britain and much of the continent. It is the purpose of this book to make a case for the scientific, cultural, and political significance of Herschel's Cape voyage and astronomical observations, as a means of demonstrating the relationship of scientific practice to broader aspects of imperial culture and politics in the nineteenth century.