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Sheehan, William |
Parallel Lives of Astronomers |
I13203 |
2024 |
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Sheehan, William |
Neptune: From Grand Discovery to a World Revealed |
I11797 |
2021 |
eBook |
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Flammarion, Camille |
Camille Flammarion's The Planet Mars |
I06974 |
2015 |
eBook |
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Sheehan, William |
Galactic Encounters |
I06876 |
2015 |
eBook |
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Sheehan, William |
A Passion for the Planets |
I05664 |
2010 |
eBook |
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Westfall, John |
Celestial Shadows |
I05462 |
2015 |
eBook |
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Baum, Richard P |
In Search of Planet Vulcan |
I04672 |
1997 |
eBook |
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William Sheehan |
Immortal fire within: Life and work of Edward Emerson Barnard |
012473 |
1995 |
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| Title | Parallel Lives of Astronomers : Percival Lowell and Edward Emerson Barnard |
| Author(s) | Sheehan, William |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. |
| Description | XIV, 687 p. 273 illus., 47 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Using the "Parallel Lives" approach adopted by the Greek biographer Plutarch, noted historian of astronomy William Sheehan contrasts the lives and research careers of two famous astronomers, Percival Lowell and Edward Emerson Barnard. Drawing on vast archival materials and hitherto unpublished source materials, Sheehan documents in detail the contributions of these two late 19th and early 20th astronomers. Living at a time when controversies about Mars peaked, when great observatories were being built, and when research increasingly turned away from the Solar System toward the stellar and extra-galactic universe, these observers made spectacular contributions to astronomy. Their work still inspires, and continues in Perseverance rover's explorations of the surface of Mars carrying forward Lowell's dream of showing that Mars may once have been "the abode of life," and in Barnard's pioneering wide-angle photographs of the Milky Way which first showed the sweep, majesty and complexity of the Galaxy. The work of decades of research and writing, Sheehan has produced what is likely to become the definitive work on these two great astronomers. William Sheehan's many books include the authoritative biography The Immortal Fire Within: The Life and Work of Edward Emerson Barnard and (with Jim Bell) Discovering Mars: A History of Observation and Exploration of the Red Planet, which has been called the "gold standard of books on Mars" (Michio Kaku). |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031688003 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomers
2. Biographies of Physicists and Astronomers
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. History of Physics and Astronomy
6. Physicists
7. PHYSICS
8. SPACE
9. Space Studies
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| Title | Neptune: From Grand Discovery to a World Revealed : Essays on the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of John Couch Adams |
| Author(s) | Sheehan, William;Bell, Trudy E;Kennett, Carolyn;Smith, Robert |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2021. |
| Description | XXXI, 403 p. 130 illus., 71 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The 1846 discovery of Neptune is one of the most remarkable stories in the history of science and astronomy. John Couch Adams and U.J. Le Verrier both investigated anomalies in the motion of Uranus and independently predicted the existence and location of this new planet. However, interpretations of the events surrounding this discovery have long been mired in controversy. Who first predicted the new planet? Was the discovery just a lucky fluke? The ensuing storm engaged astronomers across Europe and the United States. Written by an international group of authors, this pathbreaking volume explores in unprecedented depth the contentious history of Neptune???s discovery, drawing on newly discovered documents and re-examining the historical record. In so doing, we gain new understanding of the actions of key individuals and sharper insights into the pressures acting on them. The discovery of Neptune was a captivating mathematical moment and was widely regarded at the time as the greatest triumph of Newton???s theory of universal gravitation. The book therefore begins with Newton???s development of his ideas of gravity. It examines too the mathematical calculations related to the discovery of Neptune, using new theories and tools provided by advances in celestial mechanics over the past twenty years. Through this process, the book analyzes why the mathematical approach that proved so potent in the discovery of Neptune, grand as it was, could not help produce similar discoveries despite several valiant attempts. In the final chapters, we see how the discovery of Neptune marked the end of one quest???to explain the wayward motions of Uranus???and the beginning of another quest to fill in the map and understand the nature of the outer Solar System, whose icy precincts Neptune, as the outermost of the giant planets, bounds. |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030542184 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. CLASSICAL MECHANICS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
7. MECHANICS
8. Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy
9. Physics???Philosophy
10. PLANETARY SCIENCE
11. Science???History
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| Title | Camille Flammarion's The Planet Mars : As Translated by Patrick Moore |
| Author(s) | Flammarion, Camille;Sheehan, William |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2015. |
| Description | XXIII, 528 p. 318 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) began his career at 16 as a human computer under the great mathematician U. J. J. Le Verrier at the Paris Observatory. ??He soon tired of the drudgery; he was drawn to more romantic vistas, and at 19 wrote a book on an idea that he was to make his own???the habitability of other worlds. ??There followed a career as France???s greatest popularizer of astronomy, with over 60 titles to his credit. ??An admirer granted him a chateau at Juvisy-sur-l???Orge, and he set up a first-rate observatory dedicated to the study of the planet Mars. Finally, in 1892, he published his masterpiece, La Planete Mars et ses conditions d???habitabilite, a comprehensive summary of three centuries??? worth of literature on Mars, much of it based on his own personal research into rare memoirs and archives. ??As a history of that era, it has never been surpassed, and remains one of a handful of indispensable books on the red planet. Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012) needs no introduction; his record of popularizing astronomy in Britain in the 20th century equaled Flammarion???s in France in the 19th century. ??Moore pounded out hundreds of books as well as served as presenter of the BBC???s TV program ???Sky at Night??? program for 55 years (a world record). ??Though Moore always insisted that the Moon was his chef-d???oeuvre, Mars came a close second, and in 1980 he produced a typescript of Flammarion???s classic. ??Unfortunately, even he found the project too daunting for his publish ers and passed the torch of keeping the project alive to a friend, the amateur astronomer and author William Sheehan, in 1993. Widely regarded as a leading historian of the planet Mars, ??Sheehan has not only meticulously compared and corrected Moore???s manuscript against Flammarion???s original so as to produce an authoritative text, he has ??added an important introduction showing the book???s significance in the history of Mars studies. ??Here results a book that remains an invaluable resource and is also a literary tour-de-force, in which the inimitable style of Flammarion has been rendered in the equally unique style of Moore |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319096414 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Cultural heritage
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
6. PHYSICS
7. PLANETOLOGY
8. Popular Science in Astronomy
9. SPACE SCIENCES
10. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | Galactic Encounters : Our Majestic and Evolving Star-System, From the Big Bang to Time's End |
| Author(s) | Sheehan, William;Conselice, Christopher J |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 2015. |
| Description | XIV, 385 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Written by William Sheehan, a noted historian of astronomy, and Christopher J. Conselice, a professional astronomer specializing in galaxies in the early universe, this book tells the story of how astronomers have pieced together what is known about the vast and complicated systems of stars and dust known as galaxies. The first galaxies appeared as violently disturbed exotic objects when the Universe was only a few 100 million years old. From that tortured beginning, they have evolved though processes of accretion, merging and star formation into the majestic spirals and massive ellipticals that dominate our local part of the Universe. This of course includes the Milky Way, to which the Sun and Solar System belong; it is our galactic home, and the only galaxy we will ever know from the inside. Sheehan and Conselice show how astronomers??? understanding has grown from the early catalogs of Charles Messier and William Herschel; developed through the pioneering efforts of astronomers like E.E. Barnard, V.M. Slipher, Henrietta Leavitt, Edwin Hubble and W.W. Morgan; and finally is reaching fruition in cutting-edge research with state-of-the-art instruments such as the Hubble Space Telescope that can see back to nearly the beginning of the Universe. By combining archival research that reveals fascinating details about the personalities, rivalries and insights of the astronomers who created extragalactic astronomy with the latest data gleaned from a host of observations, the authors provide a view of galaxies ??? and their place in our understanding of the Universe ??? as they have never been seen before. |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387853475 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
3. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
4. Astronomy???Observations
5. ASTROPHYSICS
6. EBOOK
7. EBOOK - SPRINGER
8. Observations, Astronomical
9. Popular Science in Astronomy
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| Title | A Passion for the Planets : Envisioning Other Worlds, From the Pleistocene to the Age of the Telescope |
| Author(s) | Sheehan, William |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 2010. |
| Description | VI, 194 p. 76 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Astronomy is by far the most popular of the physical sciences, enticing enough to become a major cultural preoccupation for many, and for some an enthralling scientific activity which veritably rules their lives. What is the nature of that seemingly unstoppable attraction? In this lively and compelling account, William Sheehan ??? professional psychiatrist, noted historian of astronomy, and incurable observer - explores the nature of that allure through the story of man's visual exploration of the planets. In this volume, the first of a trilogy, Sheehan starts with observational astronomy???s profound and lasting effect on his own life, setting the points of embarkation for the journey to come. He travels across the historical landscape seeking the earliest origins of man's compulsion to observe the planets among the hunter gatherers of the upper palaeolithic, and traces the evolving story from the planetary records of the earliest cities, to Pharonic Egypt through to Hellenistic Greek astronomy culminating in Ptolemy. The necessity to observe played its part in the perceptual changes wrought by the Copernican revolution, as well as the observational advances achieved by such extraordinary characters as Tycho with his sharpest of eyes, and his luxurious practice of total astronomy. The two epochal advances published in 1609, both born through planetary observation, namely Kepler's discovery of the true nature of the orbit of Mars and Harriot and Galileo???s observations of the Moon, have a pivotal place in this account. Sheehan weaves a rich tapestry of social and technological settings, patronage and personalities, equipment and skills, cosmologies and goals, motives and compulsions to try to explain why we have observed, and continue to observe, the planets. The compelling text of A Passion for the Planets is enhanced by the specially commissioned planetary artwork of Julian Baum, himself son of a noted planetary observer and historian of planetary observers, and Randall Rosenfeld. A Passion for the Planets will be of interest to all amateur astronomers; active planetary observers; armchair astronomers; those interested in the history of astronomy; the cultural history of science; and astronomical art |
| ISBN,Price | 9781441959713 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
3. Astronomy???Observations
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
7. Observations, Astronomical
8. PHYSICS
9. PLANETOLOGY
10. Popular Science in Astronomy
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| Title | Celestial Shadows : Eclipses, Transits, and Occultations |
| Author(s) | Westfall, John;Sheehan, William |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 2015. |
| Description | XXIV, 713 p. 239 illus., 11 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Much of what is known about the universe comes from the study of celestial shadows???eclipses, transits, and occultations. The most dramatic are total eclipses of the Sun, which constitute one of the most dramatic and awe-inspiring events of nature. Though once a source of consternation or dread, solar eclipses now lead thousands of amateur astronomers and eclipse-chasers to travel to remote points on the globe to savor their beauty and the adrenaline-rush of experiencing totality, and were long the only source of information about the hauntingly beautiful chromosphere and corona of the Sun. Long before Columbus, the curved shadow of the Earth on the Moon during a lunar eclipse revealed that we inhabit a round world. The rare and wonderful transits of Venus, which occur as it passes between the Earth and the Sun, inspired eighteenth century expeditions to measure the distance from the Earth to the Sun, while the recent transits of 2004 and 2012 were the most widely observed ever--and still produced results of great scientific value. Eclipses, transits and occultations involving the planets, their satellites, asteroids and stars have helped astronomers to work out the dimensions and shapes of celestial objects???even, in some cases, hitherto unsuspected rings or atmospheres???and now transits have become leading tools for discovering and analyzing planets orbiting other stars. This book is a richly illustrated account of these dramatic and instructive astronomica l phenomena. Westfall and Sheehan have produced a comprehensive study that includes historical details about past observations of celestial shadows, what we have learned from them, and how present-day observers???casual or serious???can get the most out of their own observations. |
| ISBN,Price | 9781493915354 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
3. ASTROPHYSICS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. PLANETOLOGY
7. Popular Science in Astronomy
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