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Blaauw, Adriaan |
History of the IAU |
I01391 |
1994 |
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White, James C |
Global Climate Change |
I00636 |
1992 |
eBook |
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Feder, Ralph |
Examining the Submicron World |
I00467 |
1986 |
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Title | History of the IAU : The Birth and First Half-Century of the International Astronomical Union |
Author(s) | Blaauw, Adriaan |
Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1994. |
Description | XIX, 296 p : online resource |
Abstract Note | This History has its origin in a suggestion, made in September 1990 by former IAU General Secretary Derek McNally, who felt "that a 75 year history of the Union was needed before the col?? lective memory of those who knew the Union before the Second World War vanished. It would then be a preparatory volume to a centennial history in 2019. " Indeed, of those who knew the Union that long ago, few are still with us. Six years ago, at Baltimore on August 2, 1988, listening and reminiscing at the Inaugural Ceremonies of the Union's 20th General Assembly, I realized that it was almost exactly half a century ago that, at the age of 24, I attended the Inaugurations at my "first" Assembly: on August 3, 1938 in Stockholm. Now, in 1994, this is almost 56 years ago, three quarters of the Union's age. Only vague recollections - no better than that -lead me back to this event, just before World War II. And so, this is not a history based on recollection, far from it. Recollection was helpful in that it allowed me, better perhaps than a younger author, to appreciate circumstances under which the letters and reports which form the basis for this History were written. The account is largely based on archival documents, collected from a wide variety of sources |
ISBN,Price | 9789401109789 |
Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. HISTORY
6. History, general
7. Observations, Astronomical
8. SOCIAL SCIENCES
9. Social Sciences, general
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Item Type | eBook |
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Title | Examining the Submicron World |
Author(s) | Feder, Ralph;McGowan, J. Wm;Shinozaki, Douglas M |
Publication | New York, NY, Springer US, 1986. |
Description | XII, 372 p : online resource |
Abstract Note | An Institute like ours cannot help but lend credence to the notion of the late Derek J. de Solla Price of Yale University that "the scientific revolution was largely the improvement, invention and use of a series of instruments . . . . that expanded the reach of science in innumerable directions". Most of science today and in years gone by depends on the experimental observation of struc?? ture on the small scale with microscopes, and on the large scale with telescopes. The first instruments to expand the observational range of the human eye were simple optical systems, designed in the case of microscopes and telescopes to magnify the image. The big breakthrough in the 17th century was not when Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens, but when improvements in lens-grinding techniques allowed eyeglass makers to make the first telescope. Early microscopy revealed new and previously unsuspected microstruc?? tures in biological and non-biological materials and thus helped to enlarge on the understanding of the relationship between structure and properties. The natural inclination of all microscopists, the desire to observe ever smaller structures, was satisfied by the construction of higher quality optical systems which reduced the aberrations limiting the usable magnification. The modem optical microscope is the result of this evolution in design and construction, and it can be operated easily to achieve close to the theoretical resolution |
ISBN,Price | 9781461322092 |
Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. SOCIAL SCIENCES
4. Social Sciences, general
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