Astronomical centers of the world
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Astronomical centers of the world
Cambridge University Press, 1988
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Bibliography: p. [281]-310
Includes index
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Description
This is a thorough introduction to observatories that have made particularly important observational and theoretical advances in the field of astronomy, and to the astronomers who made them famous.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- A note on nomenclature
- 1. The Alexandrian Museum
- 2. Astronomical capitals of the Moslem world
- 3. Tycho Brahe's Observatory at Hven
- 4. Paris and Greenwich
- 5. Pulkovo Observatory
- 6. Harvard, Lick and Yerkes and the rise of astrophysics
- 7. Mt Wilson and Palomar
- 8. The present
- 9. The future
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index.
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