Download or read book Astronomers of To day and Their Work written by Hector Macpherson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Astronomers of to Day and Their Work written by Hector Macpherson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Astronomers of to-Day and Their Work With two exceptions, the sketches of which this volume is composed originally appeared as weekly contributions to an Edinburgh newspaper. The number might have been largely augmented, but in order to bring the book within reasonable compass, it was found necessary to adopt an age-limit. The writer has to thank the distinguished astronomers for supplying the biographical details, for reading and correcting the articles, supplying the various portraits, and generally for their kindly interest in the work. The obligations of the writer are also due to the valuable works of Miss Clerke, and to that encyclopædia of astronomical information - the Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society of London. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Astronomers of Today and Their Work written by Hector Jr Macpherson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Stargazers written by Emily Levesque and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the people who see beyond the stars—an astronomy book for adults still spellbound by the night sky. Humans from the earliest civilizations through today have craned their necks each night, using the stars to orient themselves in the large, strange world around them. Stargazing is a pursuit that continues to fascinate us: from Copernicus to Carl Sagan, astronomers throughout history have spent their lives trying to answer the biggest questions in the universe. Now, award-winning astronomer Emily Levesque shares the stories of modern-day stargazers in this new nonfiction release, the people willing to adventure across high mountaintops and to some of the most remote corners of the planet, all in the name of science. From the lonely quiet of midnight stargazing to tall tales of wild bears loose in the observatory, The Last Stargazers is a love letter to astronomy and an affirmation of the crucial role that humans can and must play in the future of scientific discovery. In this sweeping work of narrative science, Levesque shows how astronomers in this scrappy and evolving field are going beyond the machines to infuse creativity and passion into the stars and space and inspires us all to peer skyward in pursuit of the universe's secrets.
Download or read book A Day at Work with an Astronomer written by David Lee and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will set their eyes to the night sky in this fascinating book about astronomers. This volume is a perfect combination between STEM and career guidance as it introduces readers to the different ways astronomers use science, technology, engineering, and math in their work every day. Readers will love learning about celestial bodies and space phenomena, as well as the different processes and equipment astronomers use to observe, collect, and analyze data. This book also covers the steps a person can take to become an astronomer. The curriculum-based information in this book is conveyed through accessible and engaging text and color photographs. Fun fact boxes and graphic organizers provide additional information to show readers that in a STEM career, the sky is never the limit.
Download or read book Astronomers and What They Do written by Liesbet Slegers and published by Professions. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enlightening and informative book about the astronomer and everything she (or he) does. For stargazers ages 5 years and up. Stars and planets! The astronomer knows a lot about them. With telescopes, computers, and a lot of patience, she studies the universe. Sometimes, she even travels to an observatory in the mountains, because up there, she can see space even better through the telescopes!
Download or read book Astronomy as it is Known at the Present Day written by George G. Carey and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Astronomers of To day and Their Work by Hector Macpherson Junior written by Rev. Hector Copland Macpherson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Holes and Time Warps written by Kip S Thorne and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work, Dr. Rhorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, leads readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, answering the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they know what they know? Features an introduction by Stephen Hawking.
Download or read book Astronomy as it is known at the present day with an account of the nature and use of astronomical instruments the manner of calculating the notes of the calendar the distances and magnitudes of the planets and a number of other useful and interesting calculations in astronomy With a supplement written by George G. Carey and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Day at Work with an Astronomer written by David Lee and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents readers with a close look at what it's like to work as an astronomer, including how they use science, technology, engineering, and math in their work every day.
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Download or read book The Glass Universe written by Dava Sobel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People), little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy A New York Times Book Review Notable Book Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Economist, Smithsonian, Nature, and NPR's Science Friday Nominated for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A joy to read.” —The Wall Street Journal In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or “human computers,” to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each night. At the outset this group included the wives, sisters, and daughters of the resident astronomers, but soon the female corps included graduates of the new women's colleges—Vassar, Wellesley, and Smith. As photography transformed the practice of astronomy, the ladies turned from computation to studying the stars captured nightly on glass photographic plates. The “glass universe” of half a million plates that Harvard amassed over the ensuing decades—through the generous support of Mrs. Anna Palmer Draper, the widow of a pioneer in stellar photography—enabled the women to make extraordinary discoveries that attracted worldwide acclaim. They helped discern what stars were made of, divided the stars into meaningful categories for further research, and found a way to measure distances across space by starlight. Their ranks included Williamina Fleming, a Scottish woman originally hired as a maid who went on to identify ten novae and more than three hundred variable stars; Annie Jump Cannon, who designed a stellar classification system that was adopted by astronomers the world over and is still in use; and Dr. Cecilia Helena Payne, who in 1956 became the first ever woman professor of astronomy at Harvard—and Harvard’s first female department chair. Elegantly written and enriched by excerpts from letters, diaries, and memoirs, The Glass Universe is the hidden history of the women whose contributions to the burgeoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe.
Download or read book The Day We Found the Universe written by Marcia Bartusiak and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting and mesmerizing story behind a watershed period in human history, the discovery of the startling size and true nature of our universe. On New Years Day in 1925, a young Edwin Hubble released his finding that our Universe was far bigger, eventually measured as a thousand trillion times larger than previously believed. Hubble’s proclamation sent shock waves through the scientific community. Six years later, in a series of meetings at Mount Wilson Observatory, Hubble and others convinced Albert Einstein that the Universe was not static but in fact expanding. Here Marcia Bartusiak reveals the key players, battles of will, clever insights, incredible technology, ground-breaking research, and wrong turns made by the early investigators of the heavens as they raced to uncover what many consider one of most significant discoveries in scientific history.
Download or read book Great Astronomers written by Robert Stawell Ball and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Scripture Chronology Demonstrated by Astronomical Calculations written by Arthur Bedford and published by . This book was released on 1730 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Practical Talks by an Astronomer written by Harold Jacoby and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a concise work on several elements concerning the subject of astronomy. It's a perfect book for beginners in astronomy that introduces them to telescopes, planets, stars, skies, and celestial maps. The American astronomer and the author of this work, Harold Jacoby, described the topics in simple and easy-to-understand language. Jacoby made many observations of celestial occurrences such as lunar and solar eclipses. He was popular in Europe and America and was a member of many scientific groups. Contents include: Navigation at Sea The Pleiades The Pole-Star Nebulæ Temporary Stars Galileo The Planet of 1898 How to Make a Sun-Dial Photography in Astronomy Time Standards of the World Motions of the Earth's Pole Saturn's Rings The Heliometer Occultations Mounting Great Telescopes The Astronomer's Pole The Moon Hoax The Sun's Destination
