Bode's Law and the discovery of Juno : historical studies in asteroid research /: historical studies in asteroid research. (2017)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Bode's Law and the discovery of Juno : historical studies in asteroid research /: historical studies in asteroid research. (2017)
- Main Title:
- Bode's Law and the discovery of Juno : historical studies in asteroid research
- Further Information:
- Note: Clifford J. Cunningham.
- Authors:
- Cunningham, Clifford J, 1955-
- Contents:
- Author's Note; Preface: "Other Planets Which Appeare Not"; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Hegel, Bode's Law and the Missing Planet; The Great Masquerade of 1801; The Key to Knowledge; The Law of the Spheres; The Fulfillment of Bode's Law; Hegel: The Dissertation; Plato and the Timaeus; Schelling: Nature Constructing Itself Before Our Eyes; Ritter and the Planetary Distance Law; An Intellectual Scandal of the First Degree; Hegel's Rejoinder: The Sudden Wide Gap; Ideas Sparkling Before the Imagination; Goethe's Revenge; The Revisionists; Chapter 2: The Discovery of Juno. An Extraordinary Phenomenon An Accidental Discovery; The Imperious Queen; The Symbol for Juno; Physical Properties; Orbital Properties; Asteroid Orbits and Satellites; The Color of Juno; Herschel's Study of Juno; How the Public Learned About Juno; Chapter 3: Juno: A Driving Force for Change; The Quintessence of the Matter; Another Unpublished Work; The Mass of Jupiter and the Nature of Gravity; Chapter 4: The Music of the Spheres; The Phantoms of Untold Mistakes; Kepler's Celestial Harmony; Gräter and the Human Mind; Planetary Meteorology; Astrology: Ceres Is Not a New Planet. Schubert: Beyond the Horizon of Astronomy Extraterrestrial Life and the Asteroids; Windischmann and Pantheistic Mysticism; Chapter 5: The Big Four Asteroids in Verse; The Early Poems: 1804-1819; The Middle Years: 1820-1840; The Later Poems: 1841-1885; Chapter 6: Letters: Bessel with Gauss and Olbers; Chapter 7: The Olbers-GaussAuthor's Note; Preface: "Other Planets Which Appeare Not"; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Hegel, Bode's Law and the Missing Planet; The Great Masquerade of 1801; The Key to Knowledge; The Law of the Spheres; The Fulfillment of Bode's Law; Hegel: The Dissertation; Plato and the Timaeus; Schelling: Nature Constructing Itself Before Our Eyes; Ritter and the Planetary Distance Law; An Intellectual Scandal of the First Degree; Hegel's Rejoinder: The Sudden Wide Gap; Ideas Sparkling Before the Imagination; Goethe's Revenge; The Revisionists; Chapter 2: The Discovery of Juno. An Extraordinary Phenomenon An Accidental Discovery; The Imperious Queen; The Symbol for Juno; Physical Properties; Orbital Properties; Asteroid Orbits and Satellites; The Color of Juno; Herschel's Study of Juno; How the Public Learned About Juno; Chapter 3: Juno: A Driving Force for Change; The Quintessence of the Matter; Another Unpublished Work; The Mass of Jupiter and the Nature of Gravity; Chapter 4: The Music of the Spheres; The Phantoms of Untold Mistakes; Kepler's Celestial Harmony; Gräter and the Human Mind; Planetary Meteorology; Astrology: Ceres Is Not a New Planet. Schubert: Beyond the Horizon of Astronomy Extraterrestrial Life and the Asteroids; Windischmann and Pantheistic Mysticism; Chapter 5: The Big Four Asteroids in Verse; The Early Poems: 1804-1819; The Middle Years: 1820-1840; The Later Poems: 1841-1885; Chapter 6: Letters: Bessel with Gauss and Olbers; Chapter 7: The Olbers-Gauss Letters; Chapter 8: The Harding-Gauss Letters; Chapter 9: Letters: Gauss with Bode and Zach; Chapter 10: The Oriani-Piazzi Letters; Chapter 11: Schroeter's Asteroid Book; Chapter 12: Scientific Papers on Juno; Chapter 13: The Astronomical Instruments. The Instrument Makers Overview of Instruments; Chapter 14: The Observatories; Altona (Germany); Berlin (Germany); Bogenhausen (Munich, Germany); Brera (Milan, Italy); Cracow (Poland); Goettingen (Germany); Greenwich (England); Groombridge's Observatory (England); Kremsmuenster (Austria); Lilienthal (Germany); Mannheim (Germany); Observatory House (England); Olbers' Observatory (Bremen); Padua (Italy); Palermo (Sicily); Paris (France); Prague (Czech Republic); Remplin (Germany); Seeberg (Germany); Vienna (Austria); Vilnius (Lithuania). Appendix 1 The 1802 Hungarian Letter of Antal Décsy Appendix 2 Juno-The Ninth Planet; Appendix 3 The Historical Development of the Orbital Elements of Juno; References; Index. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations
- Subjects:
- 523.44
530
Asteroids -- Research -- History
SCIENCE -- Astronomy
Asteroids -- Research
Electronic books
History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783319328751
3319328751 - Related ISBNs:
- 9783319328737
3319328735 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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