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Chronicling the Golden Age of Astronomy

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Thomas Harriot, England’s First Telescopist
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    Chapter 2 The Legacy of Galileo
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    Chapter 3 The Checkered Career of Simon Marius
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    Chapter 4 The Era of Long Telescopes
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    Chapter 5 Workers of Speculum
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    Chapter 6 Charles Messier, the Ferret of Comets
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    Chapter 7 Thomas Jefferson and His Telescopic Forays
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    Chapter 8 The Herschel Legacy
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    Chapter 9 Thinking Big: The Pioneers of Parsonstown
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    Chapter 10 The Astronomical Adventures of William Lassell
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    Chapter 11 Friedrich W. Bessel: The Man Who Dared to Measure
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    Chapter 12 W. H. Smyth: The Admirable Admiral
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    Chapter 13 The Stellar Contributions of Wilhelm von Struve
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    Chapter 14 The Eagle-Eyed Reverend William Rutter Dawes
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    Chapter 15 The Telescopes of the Reverend Thomas William Webb
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    Chapter 16 The Astronomical Adventures of Artistic Nathaniel Everett Green
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    Chapter 17 Edward Emerson Barnard, the Early Years
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    Chapter 18 William F. Denning, a Biographical Sketch
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    Chapter 19 A Modern Commentary on W. F. Denning’s Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings (1891)
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    Chapter 20 The Astronomical Legacy of Asaph Hall
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    Chapter 21 The Life and Work of Charles Grover (1842–1921)
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    Chapter 22 Angelo Secchi, Father of Modern Astrophysics
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    Chapter 23 John Birmingham, T. H. E. C. Espin and the Search for Red Stars
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    Chapter 24 A Historic Clark Telescope Receives a New Lease on Life
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    Chapter 25 A Short Commentary on Percival Lowell’s “Mars as the Abode of Life”
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    Chapter 26 The Great Meudon Refractor
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    Chapter 27 A Short Commentary on R. G. Aitken’s The Binary Stars
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    Chapter 28 S. W. Burnham: A Life Behind the Eyepiece
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    Chapter 29 Voyage to the Planets: The Astronomical Forays of Arthur Stanley Williams (1861–1938)
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    Chapter 30 Explorer of the Planets: The Contributions of the Reverend T. E. R. Philips
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    Chapter 31 Highlights from the Life of Leslie C. Peltier
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    Chapter 32 Clyde W. Tombaugh, Discoverer of Pluto
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    Chapter 33 A Short Commentary on Walter Scott Houston’s “Deep Sky Wonders”
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    Chapter 34 A Short Commentary on David H. Levy’s The Quest for Comets
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    Chapter 35 George Alcock and the Historic Ross Refractor
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    Chapter 36 Whatever Happened to Robert Burnham Junior?
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    Chapter 37 The Impact of Mount Wilson’s 60-Inch Reflector
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    Chapter 38 Seeing Saturnian Spots
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    Chapter 39 John Dobson and His Revolution
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    Chapter 40 The Telescopes of Sir Patrick Moore (1923–2012)
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    Chapter 41 A Gift of a Telescope: The Japan 400 Project
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Title
Chronicling the Golden Age of Astronomy
Published by
ADS, December 2018
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-97707-2
ISBNs
978-3-31-997706-5, 978-3-31-997707-2
Authors

English, Neil

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