Frances Willmoth (ed.)

Flamsteed's Stars

New Perspectives on the Life and Work of the First Astronomer Royal, 1646-1719
Herausgeber: Willmoth, Frances

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Papers examining different aspects of John Flamsteed's career as the first astronomer royal'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 287
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 162mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780851157061
• ISBN-10: 0851157068
• Artikelnr.: 22469372

Autorenporträt

Frances Willmoth

Inhaltsangabe

A.D.S. Johns
Introduction: the King's `Astronomical Observator'
Flamsteed's Career in Astronomy: Nobility, Morality, Public Utility
Jim Bennett Astronomy and Strife: John Flamsteed and the Royal Society
Mordechai Feingold Models for the Practice of Astronomy: Flamsteed, Horrocks and Tycho
Frances Willmoth Flamsteed's Optics and the Identity if the Astronomical Observer
Adrian D Johns Equipping an observatory: Flamsteed and Molyneux discuss an astronomical quadrant
Hester Higton Mathematical Characters: Flamsteed and Christ's Hospital Royal Mathematical School
Robert C Iliffe `Professor' John Flamsteed
Ian G. Stewart Edmond Halley and John Flamsteed at the Royal Observatory
Alan Cook A copy of Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis (1712)
Owen Gingerich Labour harder than thrashing: John Flamsteed Property and Intellectual Labour in Nineteenth Century England
William J. Ashworth The Flamsteed Papers in the Archives of the Royal Greenwich Observatory
Adam Perkins A Summary Catalogue of Flamsteed's Papers in the Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
Frances Willmoth