Stories of Astronomers and Their Stars

Stories of Astronomers and Their Stars

Falkner, David E.

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

09/2021

302

Mole

Inglês

9783030803087

15 a 20 dias

576

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Chapter 1. Observing the Night Sky and the Celestial Sphere.- Chapter 2. The Spring/Fall Sky.- Chapter 3. The Summer/Winter Sky.- Chapter 4. The Fall/Spring Sky.- Chapter 5. The Winter/Summer Sky.- Chapter 6. Anaxagoras and Hans Albrecht Bethe - The Sun.- Chapter 7. Tycho Brahe - SN 1572.- Chapter 8. Johannes Kepler - SN 1604.- Chapter 9. Thomas Henderson - Alpha Centauri.- Chapter 10. Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel - 61 Cygni.- Chapter 11. Benedetto Castelli and J. B. Liebknecht - Mizar, Alcor and Sidus Ludoviciana.- Chapter 12. John Goodricke - Algol.- Chapter 13. A Brief History of Astrophotography.- Chapter 14. The Pioneers of Spectroscopy.- Chapter 15. Stellar Spectral Types and the H-R Diagram.- Chapter 16. Edward Charles Pickering - Mizar.- Chapter 17. Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet - Wolf-Rayet Stars.- Chapter 18. Angelo Secchi - Carbon Stars .- Chapter 19. Blue Stragglers.- Chapter 20. Measuring Cosmic Distances.- Chapter 21. Edward Pigott, John Goodricke, and Henrietta Swan - Cepheid Variable Stars.- Chapter 22. Jacobus Kapteyn, E. C. Pickering, and Williamina Fleming - RR Lyrae Variable Stars.- Chapter 23. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Mark Phillips - Type Ia Supernovae.- Chapter 24. Other Standard Candles.- Chapter 25. Star Names, Designations and Catalogs.- Appendix.- Glossary.- Index.
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history of astronomers;astronomer biographies;history of stars;study of stars;stellar spectroscopy history;star names;famous star discoveries;ancient astronomers;history of star catalogues;history of astronomical handbooks