Cosmology and the scientific self in the nineteenth century : astronomic emotions /: astronomic emotions. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Howard Carlton.
• Authors: Carlton, Howard
• Contents: Part1. Introduction.- 1. Crisis and Cosmology.- Part II The Extraterrestrial Life Debate.-2 Planets and Pluralism.-3 'In Yonder Hundred Million Spheres'.- 4 'What Is Man if Thou Art Mindful of Him?'.- 5 Richard Proctor and Private Judgement.- Part III The Nebular Hypothesis.- 6 John Pringle Nichol, the Nebular Hypothesis and Progressive Cosmogony.-7 'And Eddied into Suns, that Wheeling Cast/The Planets'.- 8 'In Tracts of Fluent Heat Began'.- Part IV The Ages of the Earth and Sun.- 9 'And Murmurs from the Dying Sun'.- 10 The North Britons.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 509.034; Scientists -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Cosmology -- History -- 19th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031052804
• Related ISBNs: 9783031052798
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