Download or read book The History of Ptolemy s Star Catalogue written by Gerd Graßhoff and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ptolemy's Almagest shares with Euclid's Elements the glory of being the scientific text longest in use. From its conception in the second century up to the late Renaissance, this work determined astronomy as a science. During this time the Almagest was not only a work on astronomy; the subject was defined as what is described in the Almagest. The cautious emancipation of the late middle ages and the revolutionary creation of the new science in the 16th century are not conceivable without reference to the Almagest. This text lifted European astronomy to the high standard of knowledge on which the new science flourished. Before, the Ptolemaic models of the orbits of the sun, the moon, and the planets had been refined by Arabic astronomers. They provided the structural elements with which Copernicus and Kepler ushered in the era of modern astronomy. The Almagest survived the destruction of its epicyclic representation of the planetary orbits in the conceptual traces left behind in the theories of its successors. The clear separation of the sidereal from the tropical year, the celestial coordinate systems, the concepts of time, the forms of the constellations, and brightness classifications of celestial objects are, among many other things, still part of the astronomical canon even today.
Download or read book Catalogue of Stars written by Caroline Lucretia Herschel and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Catalogue of Stars of the British Association for the Advancement of Science written by British Association for the Advancement of Science and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Preface to John Flamsteed s Historia Coelestis Britannica Or British Catalogue of the Heavens 1725 written by John Flamsteed and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Astronomical Catalogues of Stars written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Aitken Double Star Catalogue, Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog, Boss General Catalogue, Bright Star Catalogue, Burnham Double Star Catalogue, Cape Photographic Catalogue, Carte du Ciel, Catalogues of Fundamental Stars, Catalogue of rotational velocities of the stars, Catalog of 5,268 Standard Stars Based on the Normal System N30, Catalog of Components of Double and Multiple Stars, Catalog of Nearby Habitable Systems, Catalog of Stellar Identifications, Durchmusterung, General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars, Guide Star Catalog, Hamburg/ESO Survey, Henry Draper Catalogue, Histoire Celeste Francaise, Hubble Guide Star Catalog - Astrographic Catalog/Tycho, Index Catalogue of Visual Double Stars, JP11, Kepler Input Catalog, Kepler Object of Interest, List of astronomical catalogues, List of stars in the Hipparcos Catalogue, Millennium Star Atlas, Nearby Stars Database, New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars, PPM Star Catalogue, SBC7, Skalnate Pleso Atlas of the Heavens, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog, Star chart, TD1 Catalog of Stellar Ultraviolet Fluxes, Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle, Tycho-2 Catalogue, UBV Photoelectric Photometry Catalogue, Van Biesbroeck's star catalog, Washington Double Star Catalog, Winnecke Catalogue of Double Stars, Yale Observatory Zone Catalog.
Download or read book Star names and Their Meanings written by Richard Hinckley Allen and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A General Catalogue of 1290 Double Stars Discovered from 1871 to 1899 by S W Burnham written by Sherburne Wesley Burnham and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of 9842 Stars Or All Stars Very Conspicuous to the Naked Eye for the Epoch of 1900 written by T. W. Backhouse and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Catalogue of Stars of the British Association for the Advancement of Science written by British Association for the Advancement of Science and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Observing and Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters written by Wolfgang Steinicke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the first comprehensive historical study of the New General Catalogue, this book is an important resource to all those interested in the history of modern astronomy and visual deep-sky observing. It covers the people, observatories, instruments and methods involved in nineteenth-century visual deep-sky observing, as well as prominent deep-sky objects.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Universe written by Paul Murdin and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1979 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book we are trying to do what an Atlas should do, which is the reverse approach: to illustrate a comprehensive selection of objects in the Universe and to write about the examples chosen, bringing the basic principles out of the objects themselves. This is the way research is done: studying particular objects teaches astronomers astronomy and we hope to show how.
Download or read book Catalogue of Stars Observed at the U S Naval Observatory During the Years 1845 77 written by Yarnall and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Star Tales written by Ian Ridpath and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every night, a pageant of Greek mythology circles overhead. Perseus flies to the rescue of Andromeda, Orion faces the charge of the snorting Bull, and the ship of the Argonauts sails in search of the Golden Fleece. Constellations are the invention of human imagination, not of nature. They are an expression of the human desire to impress its own order upon the apparent chaos of the night sky. Modern science tells us that these twinkling points of light are glowing balls of gas, but the ancient Greeks, to whom we owe many of our constellations, knew nothing of this. Ian Ridpath, award-winning astronomy writer and popularizer, has been intrigued by the myths of the stars for many years. Star Tales is the first modern guide to combine all the fascinating myths in one book, illustrated with the beautiful and evocative engravings from two of the leading star atlases: Johann Bode’s Uranographia of 1801 and John Flamsteed’s Atlas Coelestis of 1729. This classic book, now in a revised and expanded edition, presents additional information on the constellations with new and enchanting illustrations. For anyone interested in the stars and classical mythology, for anyone who is an armchair astronomer, this is the perfect gift.
Download or read book Highlights of Astronomy written by G. Contopoulos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1973 marked the highest peak of IAU activity up to now. Besides the Gen eral Assembly in Sydney, and the Extraordinary General Assembly in Poland, there were held eleven IAU Symposia and one Colloquium. Several IAU Publications cover this activity. The Proceedings of the Symposia are published in separate Volumes, while the Transactions of the General Assembly and of the Extraordinary General Assembly contain short reports of the Commission meetings, the administrative sessions, and the opening ceremonies. The present Volume covers some of the scientific Highlights of the General As sembly and of the Extraordinary General Assembly. It contains five Invited Dis courses given in Sydney and Poland, some selected papers, and the Joint Discussions at the General Assembly of Sydney. Of course, there were many more papers of special interest presented in Sydney that could not be included in this Volume. Their titles can be seen in the reports of the various Commissions. It is regrettable that the Invited Discourses of C. H. Townes (Interstellar Molecules) and F. J. Low (Infrared Astronomy) were not submitted for publication. Also only five papers or abstracts of the Joint Discussion on the 'Origins of the Moon and Satellites' have been available. Despite these minor shortcomings, I believe that the present Volume is faithful to its title: it gives a substantial part of the Highlights of Astronomy in 1973.
Download or read book NGC 2000 0 written by John Louis Emil Dreyer and published by Sky Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1988 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential amateur astronomer's reference is an updated and expanded edition of J. L. E. Dreyer's famous New General Catalogue, providing visual data and notes for 13,226 deep-sky objects.
Download or read book Second Index Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars written by John Louis Emil Dreyer and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Stars Observed at the United States Naval Observatory written by United States Naval Observatory and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
