Download or read book The Optical and Psychological Principles Involved in the Interpretation of the So called Canals of Mars written by Simon Newcomb and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Astrophysical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Letters to the Editor" issued as Part 2 and separately paged from v. 148, 1967.
Download or read book The New International Encyclopaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New International Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amateur Astronomer s Handbook written by John Benson Sidgwick and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timeless, comprehensive coverage of telescopes, mirrors, lenses, mountings, telescope drives, micrometers, spectroscopes, more. ". . . highly recommended for very serious nonprofessional astronomers." — A Guide to the Literature of Astronomy. 189 illustrations. Reprint of 1971 edition.
Download or read book The Sirens of Mars written by Sarah Stewart Johnson and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 2020 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mars was once similar to Earth, but today there are no rivers, no lakes, no oceans. Yet multiple spacecraft are circling Mars, sweeping over Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, the dunes of Elysium, and Mare Sirenum-- on the brink, perhaps, of a staggering find. Johnson tells the story of how she and other researchers have scoured Mars for signs of life. She interlaces her journey as a female scientist with tales of other seekers, to offer an unlikely natural history of a place where no human has ever set foot, while providing a vivid portrait of our quest to defy our isolation in the cosmos. -- adapted from jacket
Download or read book The Johns Hopkins University Circular written by Johns Hopkins University and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes University catalogues, President's report, Financial report, registers, announcement material, etc.
Download or read book Johns Hopkins University Circulars written by Johns Hopkins University and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geographies of Mars written by K. Maria D. Lane and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first maps of Mars, published by an Italian astronomer in 1877, with its pattern of canals, fueled belief in intelligent life forms on the distant red planet—a hope that continued into the 1960s. Although the Martian canals have long since been dismissed as a famous error in the history of science, K. Maria D. Lane argues that there was nothing accidental about these early interpretations. Indeed, she argues, the construction of Mars as an incomprehensibly complex and engineered world both reflected and challenged dominant geopolitical themes during a time of major cultural, intellectual, political, and economic transition in the Western world. Geographies of Mars telescopes in on a critical period in the development of the geographical imagination, when European imperialism was at its zenith and American expansionism had begun in earnest. Astronomers working in the new observatories of the American Southwest or in the remote heights of the South American Andes were inspired, Lane finds, by their own physical surroundings and used representations of the Earth’s arid landscapes to establish credibility for their observations of Mars. With this simple shift to the geographer’s point of view, Lane deftly explains some of the most perplexing stances on Mars taken by familiar protagonists such as Percival Lowell, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Lester Frank Ward. A highly original exploration of geography’s spatial dimensions at the beginning of the twentieth century, Geographies of Mars offers a new view of the mapping of far-off worlds.
Download or read book The New International Encyclop dia written by Frank Moore Colby and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parallel Lives of Astronomers written by William Sheehan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the British Astronomical Association written by British Astronomical Association and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members, 1890-1913, bound with v. 1-23.
Download or read book The Extraterrestrial Life Debate 1750 1900 written by Michael J. Crowe and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed, scholarly study examines the ideas that developed between 1750 and 1900 regarding the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life, including those of Kant, Herschel, Voltaire, Lowell, many others. 16 illustrations.
Download or read book Selected Correspondence of William Huggins Vol 2 written by Barbara J Becker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Huggins (1824–1910) was celebrated in his lifetime as the father of astrophysics. The letters and observatory notebooks contained in this edition allow Huggins’ important role in the development of astrophysics to fully emerge. Material comes from archives around the world and is previously unpublished.
Download or read book News from Mars written by Joshua Nall and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mass media in the late nineteenth century was full of news from Mars. In the wake of Giovanni Schiaparelli’s 1877 discovery of enigmatic dark, straight lines on the red planet, astronomers and the public at large vigorously debated the possibility that it might be inhabited. As rivalling scientific practitioners looked to marshal allies and sway public opinion—through newspapers, periodicals, popular books, exhibitions, and encyclopaedias—they exposed disagreements over how the discipline of astronomy should be organized and how it should establish acceptable conventions of discourse. News from Mars provides a new account of this extraordinary episode in the history of astronomy, revealing how major transformations in astronomical practice across Britain and America were inextricably tied up with popular scientific culture and a transatlantic news economy that enabled knowledge to travel. As Joshua Nall argues, astronomers were journalists, too, eliding practice with communication in consequential ways. As writers and editors, they played a pivotal role in the emergence of a “new astronomy” dedicated to the study of the physical constitution and life history of celestial objects, blurring harsh distinctions between those who produced esoteric knowledge and those who disseminated it.
