Thomas A Hockey

Galileo's Planet (eBook, PDF)

Observing Jupiter Before Photography

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Galileo's Planet: Observing Jupiter before Photography presents the history of humankind's quest to understand the giant planet in the era before photography, a time when the only way to observe the universe was with the human eye. The book provides a comprehensive and fascinating account of the people involved in this quest, their observations, an

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000112368
• Artikelnr.: 60572286

Autorenporträt

Thomas A Hockey

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The planetary observers. Instruments and observatories.
Observing Jupiter before the telescope. The Seventeenth Century. The
Eighteenth Century. The Nineteenth Century: prior to 1850. 1850 - 1878. The
discovery of the Great Red Spot. 1882-1900. Theories of Jupiter. The
satellites of Jupiter. Conclusion. Glossary. Conclusion.