Pioneers of science

✍ Scribed by Oliver Lodge

• Book ID: 127431472
• Publisher: Nabu Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 9 MB
• Category: Library
• ISBN: 1177688522

✦ Synopsis

1910. With portraits and other illustrations. A collection of 28 lectures on the history and progress of astronomy. Some selections of these lectures are entitled: Copernicus and the motion of the Earth; Tycho Brahe and the earliest observatory; Kepler and the laws of planetary motion; Galileo and the invention of the telescope; Sir Isaac Newton; Roemer and Bradley and the velocity of light; Herschel and the motion of the fixed stars; Bessel, the distances of the stars and the discovery of the stellar planets; discovery of Neptune; tides and planetary evolution.