LEADER 01220nam 2200373 450 001 000002809 005 20070503173300.0 100 $a--------d--------km-y0itay0103----ba 101 0 $aeng 102 $aGB 200 1 $a<> professor at the break-fast-table$fby Oliver Wendell Holmes 200 1 $a1 $n0003440 210 $aLondon$cScott$d[s.d.] 215 $a288 p.$d17 cm. 676 $a811.3 700 1$aHolmes,$bOliver Wendell$0439004 801 0$aIT$bUniversità della Basilicata - B.I.A.$gRICA$2unimarc 912 $a000002809 996 $aProfessor at the break-fast-table$972879 997 $aUNIBAS BAS $aMONLET BAS $aMONOGR BAS $aLETTERE CAT $aDIBELLO$b01$c19990915$lBAS01$h1225 CAT $c20000920$lBAS01$h1830 CAT $c20001010$lBAS01$h1633 CAT $c20050601$lBAS01$h1753 CAT $abatch$b01$c20050718$lBAS01$h1047 CAT $c20050718$lBAS01$h1106 CAT $c20050718$lBAS01$h1136 CAT $c20050718$lBAS01$h1151 CAT $aBATCH$b00$c20070503$lBAS01$h1733 FMT Z30 -1$lBAS01$LBAS01$mBOOK$1BASA1$APolo Storico-Umanistico$2GEN$BCollezione generale$3FP/3357$9FP/3357$63357$5L3357$819990915$f02$FPrestabile Generale LEADER 03423oam 2200469 450 001 996466737803316 005 20210612225937.0 010 $a3-030-55423-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-55423-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000011689979 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-55423-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6447678 035 $a(PPN)252516419 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011689979 100 $a20210612d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPioneer of galactic astronomy $ea biography of Jacobus C. Kapteyn /$fPieter C van der Kruit 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cSpringer,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource (XXI, 305 p. 154 illus., 88 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aSpringer Biographies,$x2365-0613 311 $a3-030-55422-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Boarding School and University -- Astronomy Around 1875 -- Astronomer and Professor -- Almost Half a Million Stars -- Laboratory and Statistical Astronomy -- Star Streams -- In the mean time in Groningen -- Mount Wilson -- Statistics and other matters -- First Attempt: the Kapetyn Universe -- Coda. . 330 $aThis non-technical biography of Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (1851-1922) presents to the general reader the scientific life of the astronomer who pioneered the studies of the structure of the Milky Way Galaxy. In telling Kapteyn?s story the author weaves in astronomy basics and uses modern astronomical images to show the developments of astronomical research from Kapteyn?s times to the present. In particular the study of the distribution of stars in space has now culminated with spectacular new insights coming from the astrometric satellite GAIA, which is receiving much public attention today. The biography shows how Kapteyn?s ideas influenced prominent astronomers worldwide. He is prominent as designer of the Kapteyn Universe, the alternative to the large system found by Harlow Shapley. He is the discoverer of Kapteyn?s Star, still the second fastest moving star in the sky, which is now one of the nearest stars with a planet in the habitable zone. This fascinating hybrid of astronomy history and popular astronomy tells the story of the astronomy professor without an observatory who founded the first astronomical laboratory specializing in measuring photographic plates exposed elsewhere. Kapteyn took astronomy out of cataloguing stars to measuring distances and velocities in order to study their spatial distribution, systematic motions (Kapteyn?s Star Streams) and the equilibrium between their gravity and motions. His legacy includes, in addition to the first application of Galactic structure and dynamics, Jan Hendrik Oort, the famous astronomer from Leiden, who as a student was so impressed by Kapteyn?s lectures that he decided to become an astronomer. 410 0$aSpringer Biographies,$x2365-0613 606 $aAstronomers$zNetherlands$vBiography 615 0$aAstronomers 676 $a520.92 700 $aKruit$b Pieter C. van der$0792308 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996466737803316 996 $aPioneer of galactic astronomy$92830457 997 $aUNISA