Download or read book Observations of the Transit of Venus written by Edward Charles Pickering and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 38 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 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 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 The Observatory written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A review of astronomy" (varies).

Download or read book Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 496 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 Reprints Series I written by Harvard College Observatory and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A High school Astronomy written by Hiram Mattison and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society written by Royal Astronomical Society and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portfolio of 8 charts accompanies v. 83.

Download or read book Copernicus written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Popular Astronomy written by Camille Flammarion and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report on the Crustacea Brachyura and Anomura Collected by the North Pacific Exploring Expedition 1853 1856 written by Alexander George McAdie and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 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 The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain written by Jessica Ratcliff and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, the British Government spent money measuring the distance between the earth and the sun using observations of the transit of Venus. This book presents a narrative of the two Victorian transit programmes. It draws out their cultural significance and explores the nature of "big science" in late-Victorian Britain.

Download or read book The Transits of Venus written by William Sheehan and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique and fascinating history of science, acclaimed popular science writer Sheehan and award-winning geographer Westfall take readers back through the centuries to chronicle the intrepid explorations of scientists and adventurers who studied the transits of Venus in the quest for scientific understanding. Maps & tables.

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 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: