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Studies in the history of the astronomy of the stars, nebulae and the universe as a whole, from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. Until the nineteenth century, astronomy was mainly concerned with the solar system, the stars being seen mainly as a fixed and unchanged backcloth to the planetary movements. This book deals with the emergence of the stars, nebulae and the universe as a whole, as a valid subject of investigation, from the new star of 1572, to the debates on the nebulae in the 1920s.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction: Principles and Methods Section A: The Emerging Science of the Stars 1. An Overview 2. Novae and Variables from Tycho to Bullialdus 3. Hooke, Bradley and the Aberration of Light 4. Goodricke, Pigott and the Quest for Variable Stars 5. Herschel's Determination of the Solar Apex Section B: A Century of Speculative Cosmologies 1. Introduction 2. Newton, Providence and the Universe of Stars 3. The Cosmology of Thomas Wright of Durham SEction C: The Riddle of the Nebulae 1. William Herschel's Early Investigations of Nebulae 2. The Nebulae from Herschel to Huggins 3. Island Universes: An Overview 4. Ritchey, Curtis and the Discovery of Novae in Spiral Nebulae 5. The 'Great Debate': What Really Happened Author biography = Michael Hoskin before retirement was Head of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. In 1970 he founded Journal for the History of Astronomy which he has edited ever since, and in 2001 the International Astronomical Union named a minor planet in his honour.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780905193045
  • Publisher: Science History Publications Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Science History Publications Ltd
  • Height: 232 mm
  • Sub Title: Historical Studies
  • Width: 154 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0905193040
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 1982
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Weight: 337 gr


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