Download or read book Discussion of Observations of the Transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769 written by Simon Newcomb and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Transits of Venus written by Harry Woolf and published by Ayer Company Pub. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 1769 transit of Venus written by Doyce Blackman Nunis and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nature written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science written by American Association for the Advancement of Science and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Showing the Operations Expenditures and Conditions of the Institution for the Year written by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From a Photograph written by Geoffrey Belknap and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout its early history, photography's authenticity was contested and challenged: how true a representation of reality can a photograph provide? Does the reproduction of a photograph affect its value as authentic or not? From a Photograph examines these questions in the light of the early scientific periodical press, exploring how the perceived veracity of a photograph, its use as scientific evidence and the technologies developed for printing it were intimately connected.Before photomechanical printing processes became widely used in the 1890s, scientific periodicals were unable to reproduce photographs and instead included these photographic images as engravings, with the label ‘from a photograph’. Consequently, every image was mediated by a human interlocutor, introducing the potential for error and misinterpretation. Rather than ‘reading’ photographs in the context of where or how they were taken, this book emphasises the importance of understanding how photographs are reproduced. It explores and compares the value of photography as authentic proof in both popular and scientific publications during this period of significant technological developments and a growing readership. Three case studies investigate different uses of photography in print: using pigeons to transport microphotographs during the Franco-Prussian War; the debate surrounding the development of instantaneous photography; and finally the photographs taken of the Transit of Venus in 1874, unseen by the human eye but captured on camera and made accessible to the public through the periodical.Addressing a largely overlooked area of photographic history, From a Photograph makes an important contribution to this interdisciplinary research and will be of interest to historians of photography, print culture and science.
Download or read book Astronomical Papers Prepared for the Use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Astronomical Papers Prepared for the Use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac written by United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chasing Venus written by Andrea Wulf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thrilling adventure story" (San Francisco Chronicle) that brings to life the astronomers who in the 1700s embarked upon a quest to calculate the size of the solar system, and paints a vivid portrait of the collaborations, rivalries, and volatile international politics that hindered them at every turn. • From the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occasion: the first transit of Venus between the Earth and the Sun in more than a century. Through that observation, astronomers could calculate the size of the solar system—but only if they could compile data from many different points of the globe, all recorded during the short period of the transit. Overcoming incredible odds and political strife, astronomers from Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Sweden, and the American colonies set up observatories in the remotest corners of the world, only to be thwarted by unpredictable weather and warring armies. Fortunately, transits of Venus occur in pairs; eight years later, they would have another opportunity to succeed. Thanks to these scientists, neither our conception of the universe nor the nature of scientific research would ever be the same.
Download or read book Observations Made During the Year at the United States Naval Observatory written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Observations Made During the Year at the United States Naval Observatory written by George E. Belknap and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contents of this volume consist of astronomical and meteorological observations made in 1885, as well as several plates of the Saturnian rings and several appendices.
Download or read book Astronomical Magnetic and Meteorological Observations Made at the United States Naval Observatory written by United States Naval Observatory and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book English Mechanic and Mirror of Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
