1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000973390203316

Autore

TRAPNELL, William H.

Titolo

The treatment of Christian doctrine by philosophers of the natural light from Descartes to Berkeley / William H. Trapnell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : The Voltaire Foundation, 1988

ISBN

0-7294-0363-7

Descrizione fisica

VI, 228 p. ; 25 cm

Collana

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century , 0435-2866 ; 252

Disciplina

201

Soggetti

Cristianesimo e filosofia -- Sec. 17

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910337868403321

Autore

van der Kruit Pieter C

Titolo

Jan Hendrik Oort : Master of the Galactic System / / by Pieter C. van der Kruit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-17801-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (743 pages)

Collana

Astrophysics and Space Science Library, , 0067-0057 ; ; 459

Disciplina

520

520.92

Soggetti

Astronomy

Astrophysics

History

Physics

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

History of Science

History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Growing up in Oegstgeest -- Kapteyn and Groningen -- Stars of High Velocity -- Via Yale to Leiden -- Rotation of the Galaxy; Marriage- Galactic Structures and Dynamics -- The Oort Limit and Galaxy Photometry -- Professor and Adjunct-Director -- World War II: The Watershed -- Opening Up New Avenues -- Spiral Structure, Interstellar Medium and the Crab -- Dwingeloo, ESO, the Vatican and the Cross-Antenna -- Galactic Structure and the Dwingeloo Telescope -- Westerbork, Retirement and Beyond -- 15. The Last Horizon -- Curriculum Vitae, Publications, Honors, Students and Academic Genealogy -- Texts of Selected Documents -- Notes and References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first thorough and overdue biography of one of the giants of science in the twentieth century, Jan Hendrik Oort. His fundamental contributions had a lasting effect on the development of our insight and a profound influence on the international organization and cooperation in his area of science and on the efforts and contribution of his native country. This book aims at describing Oort's life and works in the context of the development of his branch of science and as a tribute to a great scientist in a broader sense. The astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort from the Netherlands was founder of studies of the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way Galaxy, initiator of radioastronomy and the European Southern Observatory, and an important contributor to many areas of astronomy, from the study of comets to the universe on the largest scales.