Download or read book Instructions for observing the transit of Venus December 6 1882 prepared by the commission authorized by congress and printed for the use of the observing parties by authority of the secretary of the navy written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Instructions for Observing the Transit of Venus December 6 1882 written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Download or read book Instructions for Observing the Transit of Venus December 6 1882 written by United States. Commission on the Transit of Venus, 1882 and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Publications of the United States Naval Observatory written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book a History of the Half Century of the National Academy of Sciences 1863 1913 written by Committee on the Preparation of the Semi- Centennial Volume and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book List of Publications Issued by the United States Naval Observatory 1845 1908 written by United States Naval Observatory. Library and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the First Half century of the National Academy of Sciences 1863 1913 written by National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eclipses Transits and Comets of the Nineteenth Century written by Stella Cottam and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the AAS 2019 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize for Historical Astronomy Grabbing the attention of poets, politicians and the general public alike, a series of spectacular astronomical events in the late 1800s galvanized Americans to take a greater interest in astronomy than ever before. At a time when the sciences were not yet as well established in the United States as they were in Europe, this public interest and support provided the growing scientific community in the United States with the platform they needed to advance the field of astronomy in the United States. Earlier in the 19th century comets, meteors and the discovery of the planet Neptune were all sources of inspiration to the general public. The specific events to be considered here are the total solar eclipses of 1868, 1869 and 1878 and the transits of Venus of 1874 and 1882. The available media responded to public interest as well as generating more interest. These events laid the groundwork that led to today's thriving network of American amateur astronomers and provide a fascinating look at earlier conceptions of the stars.
Download or read book A History of the First Half century of the National Academy of Sciences 1863 1913 written by National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1913 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pamphlets Astronomy Quartos written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Publications written by United States Naval Observatory and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sky and Ocean Joined written by Steven J. Dick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the oldest scientific institutions in the United States, the US Naval Observatory has a rich and colourful history. This volume is, first and foremost, a story of the relations between space, time and navigation, from the rise of the chronometer in the United States to the Global Positioning System of satellites, for which the Naval Observatory provides the time to a billionth of a second per day. It is a story of the history of technology, in the form of telescopes, lenses, detectors, calculators, clocks and computers over 170 years. It describes how one scientific institution under government and military patronage has contributed, through all the vagaries of history, to almost two centuries of unparalleled progress in astronomy. Sky and Ocean Joined will appeal to historians of science, technology, scientific institutions and American science, as well as astronomers, meteorologists and physicists.
Download or read book Celestial Shadows written by John Westfall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of what is known about the universe came from the study of celestial shadows. This book looks in detail at the way eclipses and other celestial shadows have given us amazing insights into the nature of the objects in our solar system and how they are even helping us discover and analyze planets that orbit stars other than our Sun. A variety of eclipses, transits, and occultations of the mooons of Jupiter and Saturn, Pluto and its satellite Charon, asteroids and stars have helped astronomers to work out their dimensions, structures, and shapes - even the existence of atmospheres and structures of exoplanets. Long before Columbus set out to reach the Far East by sailing West, the curved shadow of the Earth on the Moon during a lunar eclipse revealed that we inhabit a round world, a globe. More recently, comparisons of the sunlit and Earthlit parts of the Moon have been used to determine changes in the Earth's brightness as a way of monitoring possible effects in cloud coverage which may be related to global warming. Shadows were used by the Greek mathematician Eratosthenes to work out the first estimate of the circumference of the Earth, by Galileo to measure the heights of the lunar mountains and by eighteenth century astronomers to determine the scale of the Solar System itself. Some of the rarest and most wonderful shadows of all are those cast onto Earth by the lovely "Evening Star" Venus as it goes between the Earth and the Sun. These majestic transits of Venus occur at most two in a century; after the 2012 transit, there is not a chance to observe this phenomenon until 2117, while the more common sweep of a total solar eclipse creates one of the most dramatic and awe-inspiring events of nature. Though it may have once been a source of consternation or dread, solar eclipses now lead thousands of amateur astronomers and "eclipse-chasers" to travel the globe in order to experience the dramatic view under "totality." These phenomena are among the most spectacular available to observers and are given their full due in Westfall and Sheehan's comprehensive study.
Download or read book A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31 1942 written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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