John Herschel

Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews

With Addresses and Other Pieces

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Published in 1857, this work comprises assorted noteworthy writings by the influential mathematician and astronomer Sir John Herschel (1792-1871).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 760
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 44mm
• Gewicht: 1053g
• ISBN-13: 9781108069656
• ISBN-10: 1108069657
• Artikelnr.: 41198666

Inhaltsangabe

1. Address to the subscribers to the Windsor and Eton Public Library
2. Mechanism of the heavens
3. Terrestrial magnetism
4. Inductive sciences
5. Kosmos
6. Probabilities
7. Address to the Royal Astronomical Society, 1827
8. Address to the Royal Astronomical Society, 1828
9. Address to the Royal Astronomical Society, 1829
10. Address to the Royal Astronomical Society, 1840
11. Address to the Royal Astronomical Society, 1841
12. Memoir of the late F. Baily
13. Address to the Royal Astronomical Society, 1849
14. Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science
15. The walk
16. Funeral dirge of a Nadowessie
17. Dithyrambics
18. Saying of Confucius - time
19. Saying of Confucius - space
20. Leonora
21. Prose and verses
22. To the lark
23. Man the interpreter of nature
24. A scene in Ely cathedral
25. Mira
26. The parting dove
27. On burning a parcel of old MSS
28. A dream which was not all a dream
29. Appendix.