Astronomers

Johannes Kepler: the order of things

by Osterhage, Wolfgang W.

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This book traces the development of Kepler's ideas along with his unsteady wanderings in a world dominated by religious turmoil. Johannes Kepler, like Galileo, was a supporter of the Copernican heliocentric world model. From an early stage, his principal objective was to discove…

Johannes Kepler: the order of things

by Osterhage, Wolfgang

fromSpringer biographies

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"This book traces the development of Keplers ideas along with his unsteady wanderings in a world dominated by religious turmoil. Johannes Kepler, like Galileo, was a supporter of the Copernican heliocentric world model. From an early stage, his principal objective was to discove…

Johannes Kepler: the order of things

by Osterhage, Wolfgang

fromSpringer biographies

0 Type: Book

This book traces the development of Keplers ideas along with his unsteady wanderings in a world dominated by religious turmoil. Johannes Kepler, like Galileo, was a supporter of the Copernican heliocentric world model. From an early stage, his principal objective was to discover…

Keep watching the skies!: the story of Operation Moonwatch & the dawn of th…

by McCray, Patrick, (W. Patrick)

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"When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, thousands of ordinary people across the globe seized the opportunity to participate in the start of the Space Age. Known as the "Moonwatchers," these largely forgotten citizen-scientists helped professional astronomers by providing cri…

Keep watching the skies!: the story of Operation Moonwatch & the dawn of th…

by McCray, Patrick, (W. Patrick)

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"When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, thousands of ordinary people across the globe seized the opportunity to participate in the start of the Space Age. Known as the "Moonwatchers," these largely forgotten citizen-scientists helped professional astronomers by providing cri…

Edwin Hubble, the discoverer of the big bang universe

by Novikov, I. D., (Igorʹ Dmitrievich), Sharov, A. S., (Aleksandr Sergeevich)

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This book is the first complete account of the scientific life and work of Edwin Hubble, whose discoveries form the basis of all theories of the evolution of the universe. One of the outstanding astronomers of the twentieth century, Hubble studied the velocities or redshifts of …

Jean-Charles Houzeau's escape from Texas: a Belgian astronomer caught in the American Civil…

by Sterken, C.

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Translated from the original French and annotated with figures, historical maps and commentary from the translators, this work is Jean-Charles Houzeau's account of his escape from Texas during the American Civil War. Houzeau was a Belgian astronomer who worked a couple of years …

Jean-Charles Houzeau's escape from Texas: a Belgian astronomer caught in the American Civil…

by Sterken, C., (Christiaan), King, Amy Abercrombie

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Translated from the original French and annotated with figures, historical maps and commentary from the translators, this work is Jean-Charles Houzeau's account of his escape from Texas during the American Civil War. Houzeau was a Belgian astronomer who worked a couple of years …

Starlight nights: the adventures of a star-gazer

by Peltier, Leslie C.

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This classic autobiography of one of the 20th century's foremost amateur astronomers was originally published by Harper & Row in 1965. In his new foreword, Sky & Telescope contributing editor David H. Levy points out that although many books describe how to watch the sky, "Starl…