Astronomical centers of the world

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Astronomical centers of the world

Kevin Krisciunas

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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