Ian Stewart Glass

Nicolas-Louis de la Caille, Astronomer and Geodesist

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first comprehensive biography of one of the greatest and most careful observational astronomers of all time. He mapped the southern sky and named many of the constellations. In addition, he contributed to geodesy, navigation, and celestial mechanics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780199668403
• ISBN-10: 019966840X
• Artikelnr.: 36455993

Autorenporträt

Ian Glass is an Astronomer at the South African Astronomical Observatory, and Adjunct Professor at James Cook University. His previous books include Revolutionaries of the Cosmos: The Astrophysicists, Victorian Telescope Makers: The Lives and Letters of Thomas and Howard Grubb, and Proxima: The Nearest Star (Other than the Sun).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Early Life
2: The Cape
3: The Shape of the Earth
4: Notes about the Cape
5: Later Years
6: Paradox Resolved