Investigating the origin of the asteroids and early findings on Vesta : historical studies in asteroid research /: historical studies in asteroid research. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Clifford J. Cunningham.
• Authors: Cunningham, Clifford J
• Contents: Exordium ; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Olbers' Hypothesis: The Origin of the Asteroids; A Very Romantic Idea; The Truths of Science; Meteorites: No Hypothesis Is Too Bold; The Link Between Comets and Asteroids; An Utter Impossibility; The Opinions of the Great Observers: Schroeter, Zach, Oriani and Herschel; Laplace and the Art of Persuasion; Lagrange: A Complete Hypothesis of the Origin of the Solar System; Invoking Electricity to Bolster Olbers' Hypothesis; A Chimerical Fancy; The Planetary Wreck; The Sun: Originator and Destroyer; Subversive Asteroids. A Great and Sublime Mystery Reuniting the Asteroids; The Primordial Planet and the Shapes of the Asteroids; Did Humans See the Primordial Planet?; Sisters of the Same Age; The Nest of a Bird; Chapter 2: Regnér's Attacks on Olbers' Hypothesis; The 1803 Treatise; The Cometary Collision Hypothesis; The 1806 Treatise; Chapter 3: Brewster's Support for Olbers' Hypothesis; The Destruction of Harmony in the Solar System; Beyond the Grasp of the Most Refined Analysis; The Density of the Asteroids; The Spider's Most Attenuated Threads; Miserable Little Fragments or Planets? The Atmospheres of the Asteroids The Five Asteroids of 1811; A Deduction Most Wonderfully Confirmed; Geology: The First Chapter of Astronomy; A Standing Rebuke to Reason; Chapter 4: The Discovery of Vesta; The Pursuit of the Game; Share My Happiness with Me!; Olbers: The Favorite of the Heavens; Who Observed Vesta First?; The Crown of Astronomy; Four Is Not Enough; Olbers' Daughter; The Origin of Vesta; The Celestial Railroad; Herschel's Study of Vesta; Physical Properties; The Color of Vesta; Orbital Properties; The Elements Junonium and Vestium; The Magnitude of Vesta. How the Public Learned About VestaChapter 5: Vesta: A Self-Luminous Asteroid?; A State of Combustion; A Ghastly Yellowish Rim; Lustrous Facets; Chapter 6: Asteroids and the Language of Nature; Wonderful Phenomena; The Intellectual Landscape and the Power of Prediction; Diameter Measurements; Integrating the Asteroids; Comparative Physical Properties; Symbols of the Asteroids; Ceres; Pallas; Juno; Vesta; Satellites of Asteroids; A Philippic Against the Nautical Almanac; The Berlin Ephemeris; Absurd Little Heavenly Bodies; Chapter 7: The Perturbations of Vesta. Burckhardt's Perturbation Work in 1807 Daussy's Perturbation Work from 1813 to 1818; Encke's Perturbation Work from the 1830s to the 1850s; Groombridge and Moseley; Chapter 8: Letters: Olbers-Gauss; Chapter 9: Letters: Bessel-Olbers-Bode-Gauss; Chapter 10: Letters: Groombridge-Maskelyne-Herschel; Chapter 11: Schroeter's Asteroid Books; The Origin of the Asteroids; Observations and Measurements of the Planet Vesta; Observations of the Asteroid-Planet Vesta; Chapter 12: Scientific Papers; Observations on the Nature of the New Celestial Body Discovered by Dr. Olbers.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 523.44072; Physics; Asteroids -- Research -- History -- 19th century; Asteroids -- History; SCIENCE -- Astronomy; Asteroids; Asteroids -- Research; Science -- History; Science -- Physics; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geology; Science -- Astrophysics & Space Science; History of science; Solar system: the Sun & planets; Astronautics; History; Planetology; Astrophysics; Astronomy, space & time; Vesta (Asteroid); Solar system -- Vesta (Asteroid); Electronic book; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319581187
• Related ISBNs: 331958118X; 9783319581170; 3319581171
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 4, 2017).
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