Astronomical Discovery / / Herbert Hall Turner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911046649403321
• Autore: Turner Herbert Hall
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1963]; ©1963
• ISBN: 9780520316577; 0520316576
• Edizione: [Reprint 2019]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BrouwerDirk
• Disciplina: 523
• Soggetti: NON-CLASSIFIABLE
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I. URANUS AND EROS -- CHAPTER II. THE DISCOVERY OF NEPTUNE -- CHAPTER III. BRADLEY'S DISCOVERIES OF THE ABERRATION OF LIGHT AND OF THE NUTATION OF THE EARTH'S AXIS -- CHAPTER IV. ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERIES -- CHAPTER V. SCHWABE AND THE SUN-SPOT PERIOD -- CHAPTER VI. THE VARIATION OF LATITUDE -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.