Popular Astronomy
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy
ISBN-10
1108037739
ISBN-13
9781108037730
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 24th, 2011
Print length
598 Pages
Weight
776 grams
Dimensions
13.90 x 21.70 x 3.80 cms
Product Classification:
Popular astronomy & spacePopular astronomy and space
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Originally published in 1878, this book was intended as a guide for the non-specialist to the history of astronomy and its latest advances. Simon Newcomb (1835–1909) offers the most recent theories and speculations from one of the fastest-moving periods of discovery in pre-Einsteinian astronomy.
Furnished with more than a hundred figures, maps and tables, this book was first published in 1878 by Simon Newcomb (1835–1909), a noted mathematician and professor at the United States Naval Observatory. A meticulous work, originally intended to be of use to the general reader as well as the student, it provides a view of astronomy as it stood on the eve of General Relativity, and inevitably includes some theories which have since been disproved. Newcomb outlines a brief history of astronomy, from ancient Greece (when the planets were thought to be fixed in crystal spheres), to the application of the new laws of thermodynamics and the latest observations of the solar system. Included are a rejection of the then prevalent theory that the sun has a cool interior and its own inhabitants, details of the anomaly of Mercury's orbit according to Newtonian theory, and thorough observational guides.
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