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Unravelling starlight : William and Margaret Huggins and the rise of the new astronomy /

"Challenging traditional accounts of the origins of astrophysics, this book presents the first scholarly biography of nineteenth-century English amateur astronomer William Huggins (1824-1910). A pioneer in adapting the spectroscope to new astronomical purposes, William Huggins rose to scientifi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Becker, Barbara J., 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. 'The astronomer ... must come to the chemist' -- 3. The young observer -- 4. 'A sudden impulse ... ' -- 5. The riddle of the nebulae -- 6. Moving in the inner circle -- 7. Stellar motion along the line of sight -- 8. A new telescope -- 9. Solar observatories -- 10. An able assistant -- 11. Photographing the solar corona -- 12. A scientific lady -- 13. Foes and allies -- 14. The new astronomy -- 15. 'One true mistress' -- 16. Conclusion. 
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