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Essays on astronomical history and heritage = a tribute to Wayne Orchiston on his 80th birthday /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Essays on astronomical history and heritage/ edited by Steven Gullberg, Peter Robertson.
Reminder of title:	a tribute to Wayne Orchiston on his 80th birthday /
other author:	Orchiston, D. Wayne,
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2023.,
Description:	xli, 700 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Astronomy - History. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29493-8
ISBN:	9783031294938

Essays on astronomical history and heritage = a tribute to Wayne Orchiston on his 80th birthday /
Essays on astronomical history and heritagea tribute to Wayne Orchiston on his 80th birthday /[electronic resource] :edited by Steven Gullberg, Peter Robertson. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023. - xli, 700 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Historical & cultural astronomy,2509-3118. - Historical & cultural astronomy..

Chapter 1. COSMOS AND CULTURE: LINKING THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH -- Chapter 2. SWEDEN'S THIRTY DAYS IN FEBRUARY: CALENDAR REFORM -- Chapter 3. EARLY STAR CHARTS OF THE DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY -- Chapter 4. THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL CIVILIZATIONS: A SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL, POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL ADVENTURE -- Chapter 5. WHAT'S IN A NAME? THAT WHICH WE CALL ANDERS' EARTHRISE, AS 'PASTEUR T,' DIDN'T SOUND AS SWEET (ADVENTURES IN LUNAR EXPLORATION AND NOMENCLATURE ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF APOLLO 8) -- Chapter 6. THE LIFE AND SCIENCE OF LÉON FOUCAULT AS A MUSE -- Chapter 7. THE MERE FANCIFUL ABSTRACTIONS OF SCIENCE -- Chapter 8. HENRY NORRIS RUSSELL'S CAMPAIGN TO MAKE PHYSICS THE CORE OF ASTROPHYSICS -- Chapter 9. ASTRONOMICAL TRAVELS IN ASIA -- Chapter 10. THE DISCOVERY OF THE COMA CLUSTER OF GALAXIES -- Chapter 11. FROM AIRCRAFT CARRIERS TO THE COSMOS: COMPARING AND CONTRASTING THE CAREERS OF JOHN BOLTON AND JOSEPH WEBER -- Chapter 12. GROTE REBER IN TASMANIA -- Chapter 13. WAYNE ORCHISTON AND THE HISTORY OF RADIO ASTRONOMY -- Chapter 14. THE HOLE-IN-THE-GROUND TELESCOPE AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE GALACTIC CENTRE -- Chapter 15. REMAINS OF THE DAY: HISTORICAL REMNANTS OF THE CSIRO RADIOPHYSICS FIELD STATIONS -- Chapter 16. HISTORY OF COSMIC MAGNETIC FIELDS -- Chapter 17. 'WHERE'S WALDO?' LEONARD WALDO AND THE 1878 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE IN FORT WORTH, TEXAS -- Chapter 18. THE EVOLUTION OF 'METEOR' AS AN ASTRONOMICAL TROPE 1560-1760 -- Chapter 19. NEW ZEALAND OBSERVATIONS OF THE GREAT COMET OF 1881, C/1881 K1 (TEBBUTT) -- Chapter 20. SOLAR ECLIPSES, WAYNE ORCHISTON, AND ME -- Chapter 21. POLITICS AND THE DIMENSIONS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM: JOHN WINTHROP'S OBSERVATIONS OF THE TRANSITS OF VENUS -- Chapter 22. INVESTIGATION OF SHANG DYNASTY ORACLE BONES AND ECLIPSES -- Chapter 23. ON JEAN-CHARLES HOUZEAU AND HILMAR DUERBECK: HOW TRANSITS OF VENUS MOLDED THEIR LATE PROFESSIONAL LIVES -- Chapter 24. WILLIAM HERSCHEL AND THE MOON -- Chapter 25. THE 'NASHVILLE TRIO' OF ASTRONOMERS AT THE DYER OBSERVATORY IN TENNESSEE: CARL SEYFERT, ROBERT HARDIE AND JOHN DEWITT -- Chapter 26. EARLY PHOTOMETERS AT THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY, CAPE -- Chapter 27. EVOLUTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF VISUAL TIME SIGNALS FOR MARINERS -- Chapter 28. CLOSING ENCOUNTERS: THE EFFORTS OF THE NSW BRANCH OF THE BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION TO SAVE SYDNEY OBSERVATORY -- Chapter 29. FINDING COLONIAL NEW ZEALAND'S PLACE IN THE WORLD: ASTRONOMY AND A GEODESICAL SURVEYOR -- Chapter 30. INCA CULTURAL ASTRONOMY -- Chapter 31. THE ASTRONOMY OF THE ABORIGINAL PEOPLES OF THE SYDNEY BASIN -- Chapter 32. USING THE SIGNIFICANT HORIZONS METHODOLOGY TO DETERMINE POTENTIAL ASTRONOMICAL USE OF ABORIGINAL STONE ARRANGEMENTS -- Chapter 33. ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA IN PREMODERN ARMENIAN AND GEORGIAN WRITTEN SOURCES.

ISBN: 9783031294938

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-29493-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

683427
Astronomy
--History.

LC Class. No.: QB15

Dewey Class. No.: 520.9

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