William Sheehan

The Immortal Fire Within

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This, the first full-length biography of Edward Emerson Barnard, tells the remarkable tale of endurance and achievement of one of the leading astronomers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. As a 'man who was never known to sleep', Barnard scoured the heavens endlessly, leaving an astonishing legacy of observations - of planets, satellites, comets, double stars, bright and dark nebulae, and globular clusters - that make him one of the greatest observers of all time. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book includes many of Barnard's famous wide-field photographs of comets and the Milky Way. It provides a complete history of Barnard's fascinating life and work, based largely on archival material hitherto unpublished. It also offers unusual insight into the astronomers he knew and observatories with which he was associated and will be of interest to astronomers and historians of science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 761g
• ISBN-13: 9780521046015
• ISBN-10: 0521046017
• Artikelnr.: 23137754

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Key to abbreviations in notes
1. Through rugged ways
2. Ardent and faithful work with a telescope
3. Mars
his moons and his heavens
4. A seeker of comets
5. Vanderbilt astronomer
6. In the realm of the nebulae
7. Go west, young man!
8. Hanging fire
9. On Mt. Hamilton
10. A year of wonders
11. The young rebel
12. 'I am tired here'
13. Immortality
14. Travels and travails
15. Barnard and Mars
16. Nature's true artisan
17. A tide in his affairs
18. Yerkes observatory
19. Disappointments and triumphs
20. The comet and Milky Way photographs
21. Comet tales
22. Observer of all that shines - or obscures
23. Eclipse and decline
24. Ad astra
Index.