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Astronomical Centers of the World Kevin Krisciunas (United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Unit, Hawaii)

Astronomical Centers of the World By Kevin Krisciunas (United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Unit, Hawaii)

Astronomical Centers of the World by Kevin Krisciunas (United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Unit, Hawaii)

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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.

Astronomical Centers of the World Summary

Astronomical Centers of the World by Kevin Krisciunas (United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Unit, Hawaii)

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.

About Kevin Krisciunas (United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Unit, Hawaii)

Kevin Krisciunas is an observational astronomer who works at Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas. He co-discovered a class of pulsating stars whose prototype is gamma Doradus, and he is an expert on the photometric properties of Type Ia supernovae.

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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CIN0521302781G
9780521302784
0521302781
Astronomical Centers of the World by Kevin Krisciunas (United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Unit, Hawaii)
Kevin Krisciunas (United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Unit, Hawaii)
Used - Good
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
1988-05-12
336
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