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UNINA9910783915503321 |
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Autore |
Aharonian Felix A |
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Very high energy cosmic gamma radiation [[electronic resource] ] : a crucial window on the extreme universe / / F.A. Aharonian |
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Singapore ; ; London, : World Scientific, c2004 |
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1-281-87201-6 |
9786611872014 |
981-256-173-0 |
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1 online resource (508 p.) |
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Cosmic rays |
Gamma ray astronomy |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-491) and index. |
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Copyright; Preface; Contents; 1 - Introduction; 2 - Status of the Field; 3 - Gamma Ray Production and Absorption Mechanisms; 4 - Gamma Rays and Origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays; 5 - Gamma Ray Visibility of Supernova Remnants; 6 - Pulsars, Pulsar Winds, Plerions; 7 - Gamma Rays Expected from Microquasars; 8 - Large Scale Jets of Radio Galaxies and Quasars; 9 - Nonthermal Phenomena in Clusters of Galaxies; 10 - TeV Blazers and Cosmic Background Radiation; 11 - High Energy Gamma Rays - Carriers of Unique Cosmological Information; Appendix A - Spherically symmetric diffusion from a single source |
Appendix B - Evolution of relativistic electronics in an expanding magnetised mediumBibliography; Index |
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Gamma ray astronomy, the branch of high energy astrophysics that studies the sky in energetic ?-ray photons, is destined to play a crucial role in the exploration of nonthermal phenomena in the Universe in their most extreme and violent forms. The great potential of this discipline offers impressive coverage of many "hot topics" of modern astrophysics and cosmology, such as the origin of galactic and extragalactic cosmic rays, particle acceleration and radiation processes |
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under extreme astrophysical conditions, and the search for dark matter. |
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UNINA9910798408803321 |
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Global scientific practice in an age of revolutions, 1750–1850 / / edited by Patrick Manning & Daniel Rood |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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1 online resource (416 p.) |
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SCIENCE / History |
World history - Historiography |
Science - Historiography |
Social change - History - 19th century |
Social change - History - 18th century |
Science - History - 19th century |
Science - History - 18th century |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-386) and index. |
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Introduction: Building Global Perspectives in History of Science : The Era from 1750 to 1850 / Patrick Manning -- Part I. Exchanges among Ways of Knowing -- Between Bureaucrats and Bark Collectors : Spain's Royal Reserve of Quina and the Limits of European Botany in the Late Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World / Matthew James Crawford -- Hurricanes on the Gulf Coast : Environmental Knowledge and Science in Louisiana, the Caribbean, and the United States, 1722-1900 / Eleonora Rohland -- The History and Influence of Maria Sibylla Merian's Bird-Eating Tarantula : Circulating Images and the Production of Natural Knowledge / Kay Etheridge -- Part II. Evolution of the Linnaean Vision -- Linnaeus's Apostles and the Globalization of Knowledge, 1729-1756 / Kenneth Nyberg -- Local, Universal, and |
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Embodied Knowledge : Anglo-Swedish Contacts and Linnaean Natural History / Hanna Hodacs -- How Eighteenth-Century "Travelers in Trade" Changed Swedish Perceptions of Economic Systems / Göran Ryden -- Part III. Debates on Description and Taxonomy -- The Slow Science of Swift Nature : Hummingbirds and Humans in New Spain / Iris Montero Sobrevilla -- Felix de Azara and the Birds of Paraguay : Making Inventories and Taxonomies at the Boundaries of the Spanish Empire, 1784-1802 / Marcelo Fabián Figueroa -- Los Pichiciegos : Scraps of Information and the Affinities of Mammals in the Early Nineteenth Century / Irina Podgorny -- Part IV. Logistics, Management, and Planning -- Mapping the Global and Local Archipelago of Scientific Tropical Sugar : Agriculture, Knowledge, and Practice, 1790-1880 / Leida Fernández-Prieto -- "Squares of Tropic Summer" : The Wardian Case, Victorian Horticulture, and the Logistics of Global Plant Transfers, 1770-1910 / Stuart McCook -- Stamping Empire : Postal Standardization in Nineteenth-Century India / Devyani Gupta -- Part V. Labor and Economics in History of Science -- The Great Data Divergence : Global History of Science within Global Economic History / Jessica Ratcliff -- Toward a Global Labor History of Science / Daniel Rood. |
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"The century from 1750 to 1850 was a period of dramatic transformations in world history, fostering several types of revolutionary change beyond the political landscape. Independence movements in Europe, the Americas, and other parts of the world were catalysts for radical economic, social, and cultural reform. And it was during this age of revolutions--an era of rapidly expanding scientific investigation--that profound changes in scientific knowledge and practice also took place. In this volume, an esteemed group of international historians examines key elements of science in societies across Spanish America, Europe, West Africa, India, and Asia as they overlapped each other increasingly. Chapters focus on the range of participants in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science, their concentrated effort in description and taxonomy, and advancements in techniques for sharing knowledge. Together, contributors highlight the role of scientific change and development in tightening global and imperial connections, encouraging a deeper conversation among historians of science and world historians and shedding new light on a pivotal moment in history for both fields"-- |
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