Download or read book Astronomers at the Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope written by Brian Warner and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Astronomers at the Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope written by Brian Warner and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope 1820 1831 written by Brian Warner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which has been in the making for some eighteen years, would never have begun were it not for Dr. David Dewhirst in 1976 kindly having shown the author a packet of papers in the archives of the Cambridge Obser vatories. These letters and miscellaneous papers of Fearon Fallows sparked an interest in the history of the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope which, after the diversion of producing several books on later phases of the Observatory, has finally resulted in a detailed study of the origin and first years of the Observatory's life. Publication of this book coincides with the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Observatory, e.G.H. Observatories are built for the use of astronomers. They are built through astronomers, architects, engineers and contractors acting in concert (if not always in harmony). They are constructed, with whatever techniques and skills are available, from bricks, stones and mortar; but their construction may take a toll of personal relationships, patience, and flesh and blood.

Download or read book Results of Astronomical Observations Made at the Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Results of Astronomical Observations Made at the Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope in the Year written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of Her Majesty s Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope to the Secretary of the Admiralty written by Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Astronomical Observations Made at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh written by Royal Observatory (Edinburgh) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History and Description of the Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope written by David Gill and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 428 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 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of His Majesty s Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope to the Secretary of the Admiralty written by Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Free Public Library written by Public Library of New South Wales and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Commonwealth of Knowledge written by Saul Dubow and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Commonwealth of Knowledge addresses the relationship between social and scientific thought, colonial identity, and political power in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. It hinges on the tension between colonial knowledge, conceived of as a universal, modernizing force, and its realization in the context of a society divided along complex ethnic and racial fault-lines. By means of detailed analysis of colonial cultures, literary and scientific institutions, and expert historical thinking about South Africa and its peoples, it demonstrates the ways in which the cultivation of knowledge has served to support white political ascendancy and claims to nationhood. In a sustained commentary on modern South African historiography, the significance of `broad' South Africanism - a political tradition designed to transcend differences between white English- and Afrikaans-speakers - is emphasized. A Commonwealth of Knowledge also engages with wider comparative debates. These include the nature of imperial and colonial knowledge systems; the role of intellectual ideas and concepts in constituting ethnic, racial, and regional identities; the dissemination of ideas between imperial metropole and colonial periphery; the emergence of amateur and professional intellectual communities; and the encounter between imperial and indigenous or local knowledge systems. The book has broad scope. It opens with a discussion of civic institutions (eg. museums, libraries, botanical gardens and scientific societies), and assesses their role in creating a distinctive sense of Cape colonial identity; the book goes on to discuss the ways in which scientific and other forms of knowledge contributed to the development of a capacious South Africanist patriotism compatible with continued membership of the British Commonwealth; it concludes with reflections on the techno-nationalism of the apartheid state and situates contemporary concerns like the `African Renaissance', and responses to HIV/AIDS, in broad historical context.

Download or read book Fire in the Sky written by Roberta J. M. Olson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-13 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and interesting presentation of the diverse range of historical material about comets.

Download or read book Memoirs of the Astronomical Society of London written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cape Landscapes written by Brian Warner and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir John Herschel, one of the most noted astronomers of his time, arrived at the Cape in 1834 to spend four years observing the southern sky. During this time he produced over 100 exquisite landscape sketches. They are reproduced in this book, together with a narrative text which provides background to Herschel's life and work and sets the illustrations in their historical and geographical context.

Download or read book Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society written by Royal Astronomical Society and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 248 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.