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An Astronomer's Life

Book by Edwin Brant Frost; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933

Subjects:

Astronomers--United States--Biography, Frost, Edwin Brant--1866-1935

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...Hyde for this early start in natural history. It has been a perpetual source of satisfaction...always make quite a little study of natural history through the open windows. This has been...ever since. It was my duty in natural history surveys to climb the trees, because I...
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Impartial Stranger: History and Intertextuality in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Book by Peter Cosgrove; University of Delaware Press, 1999

Subjects:

Byzantine Empire--Historiography, Gibbon, Edward--1737-1794--Criticism And Interpretation, Gibbon, Edward--1737-1794--History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, Historians In Literature, Intertextuality, Literature And History, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D--Historiography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Impartial Stranger Impartial Stranger History and Intertextuality in Gibbons Decline...Cosgrove, Peter, 1945- Impartial stranger : history and intertextuality in Gibbons Decline...interpretation. 2. Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794. History of the decline and fall of the Roman...
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The History of the Study of Landforms - Vol. 2

Book by Richard J.Chorley, Robert P.Beckinsale, Antony J.Dunn; Routledge, 1973

Subjects:

Davis, William Morris--1850-1934, Geomorphology--History

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THE HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF LANDFORMS OR THE DEVELOPMENT...February 1931 (Courtesy J.H. Maxson) THE HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF LANDFORMS OR THE DEVELOPMENT...1932 752 Preface Volume Two of The History of the Study of Landforms needs no further...
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God and the Astronomers: Containing the Warburton Lectures, 1931-1933

Book by William Ralph Inge; Longmans, 1933

Subjects:

Religion And Science--1926-1945, Religion--Philosophy

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...poor earths pale history runs, What is...other. Some of our astronomers present us with...challenged. The astronomers tell us as a certain...process of world-history as seen by our physicists and astronomers, and with the...
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Makers of Astronomy

Book by Hector MacPherson; Clarendon Press, 1933

Subjects:

Astronomers, Astronomy--History

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...provide a refuge for timid astronomers in France and Italy, who...greatest significance in the history of science. At the request...Mastlin, one of the ablest astronomers of the day, who in a cautious...him to the notice of other astronomers. It introduced him to Galileo...

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Some Cognitive Characteristics of Night-Sky Watchers: Correlations between Social Problem-Solving, Need for Cognition, and Noctcaelador

Journal article by William E. Kelly; Education, Vol. 126, 2005

Subjects:

Astronomers--Psychological aspects, Research--Analysis

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...1979; Hawkins, 1983). Despite the long history of night-sky watching among humans and...contemporary population (i.e., amateur astronomers, astro-tourists, etc.), this behavior...characteristics of night-sky watchers and astronomers, additional research is also needed...
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Pluto, Perception & Planetary Politics

Journal article by David Jewitt, Jane X. Luu; Daedalus, Vol. 136, 2007

Subjects:

Astronomy--Political aspects, International Astronomical Union--Management, Pluto (Planet)--Identification and classification, Prague, Czech Republic

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...planet--and this had already been a controversial assertion for many years. The history of how Pluto came to be labeled the ninth planet is well known. Astronomers in the early twentieth century noted that Uranuss position deviated from its predicted...
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God's Compass and 'Vana Curiositas': Scientific Study in the Old French 'Bible Moralisee.'

Journal article by Katherine H. Tachau; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 80, 1998

Subjects:

Creation in art--Analysis, Creation--Portrayals, depictions, etc., God--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

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...Thinking in the European Tradition: The History of Argument and Explanation Especially...Columbia University Department of Art History, New York, for photographs of the Toledo...them holds up toward the heavens the astronomers attribute, a white disk (or astrolabe...
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Distance Education for the Gifted and Talented: An Interactive Design Model

Journal article by David H. Mckinnon, C. J. Patrick Nolan; Roeper Review, Vol. 21, 1999

Subjects:

Cosmology--Study and teaching, Distance education--Usage, Gifted children--Education, Literature, Comparative--Study and teaching, Philosophy--Study and teaching

Collections: Philosophy, Education, Literature, Entire Library

...augmented by material from history, sociology and mathematics...Australian and international astronomers and cosmologists. The learning...electronic conversations with the astronomers and cosmologists, peers and...coordinator and visiting research astronomers. Prior to commencing the project...
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Planetary Perils in Prague

Journal article by Owen Gingerich; Daedalus, Vol. 136, 2007

Subjects:

International Astronomical Union--Management, Pluto (Planet)--Identification and classification, Prague, Czech Republic

Collections: Entire Library

...Prague was teeming with astronomers, roughly two thousand...astrophysics and the history of astronomy, I was...science, the voting astronomers in Prague seemed to...science is revealing. And astronomers could have left Prague...Emeritus of Astronomy and History of Science at Harvard...

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Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother

Magazine article by Owen Gingerich; The Christian Century, Vol. 121, June 29, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius (Book)--Book reviews, Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother (Book)

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...This excellent book can be recommended without reservation. Reviewed by Owen Gingerich, research professor of astronomy and history of science at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and author of The Book Nobody Read...
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The Heart of Genuine Sadness: Astronomers, Politicians, and Federal Employees Desecrate the Holiest Mountain of the San Carlos Apache

Magazine article by Peter Warshall; Whole Earth, Winter 1997

Subjects:

Apaches--Political activity, Astronomical observatories--Environmental aspects, Environmentalists--Political activity, Pinaleno Mountains--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...pollutes the sky for astronomers, the violence...skin. Chills of history, not weather. We...other hand, the astronomers are irked by the...not its tectonic history. The observatory...been part of this history. Specific priests...More than fifty astronomers petitioned to stop...
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Quito Centre of the Ancient World: A Lone Researcher in the Ecuadorian Andes Has Uncovered Evidence of a Civilisation of Astronomers Who, as Far Back as 1500 BC, Were Capable of Calculating the Movement of the Sun with the Same Accuracy as the Latest Satellite Positioning Equipment

Magazine article by Mark Honigsbaum; Geographical, Vol. 74, September 2002

Subjects:

Astronomy, Ancient--Research, Cobo, Cristobal--Research, Quito, Ecuador--Antiquities

Collections: Entire Library

...been excavated. Cobo has opened a museum at the Mitad del Mundo where he exhibits photographs and maquettes explaining the history of the Caras people, and the astronomical connections between the sites. He has also established a foundation, named Quitsa-To...
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Witchcraft, Suspicious Death, and Planetary Orbits

Magazine article by Stan Corbett; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 112, Fall 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries (Book)--Book reviews, Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of his Mother (Book), Tycho and Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership that Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens (Book)

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...among deeply devout astronomers than between astronomers...also has a natural history. In the sixteenth and...centuries the great astronomers were all working within...Murder behind One of Historys Greatest Scientific...KEPLERS WITCH: An Astronomers Discovery of Cosmic...
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Birth of Caroline Herschel

Magazine article by Margaret Millar, Ian Millar; History Today, Vol. 50, March 2000

Subjects:

Herschel, Caroline--Biography, Women astronomers--Biography

Collections: History, Entire Library

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Riddle of Great Astronomer's Death Solved, Centuries Later

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 25, 2004

Subjects:

Kepler, Johannes

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Riddle of Great Astronomers Death Solved, Centuries...important figures in the history of science. For 18 months...unknown dark episode in the history of science, as well as...THE MURDER BEHIND ONE OF HISTORYS GREATEST SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES...
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Huge Blast in Space Astounds Scientists

Newspaper article by Joyce Howard Price; The Washington Times, May 7, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...believe created the universe. Astronomers studying the recent space...brightest documented explosion in history," Mr. Woosley said. "If...and the rays cant be seen, astronomers rarely are able to focus telescopes...the blast, quickly contacted astronomers operating telescopes at Kitt...
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Would It Be Goofy to Label Pluto a Mickey Mouse Planet?

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 19, 2006

Subjects:

Astronomy--Discovery and exploration

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...those icy hunks has been labeled "the 10th planet" by some astronomers, whove labeled it Sedna. While Ciupik says Sedna, the name...Brockman says of her kids. Those students names are "part of history" as they are listed on a disc that will go into space on the...
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Lembit's Very Cheeky Family; the Nude Yachtsman and Brilliant Astronomer. a Linguist Who Taught Herself 13 Languages ... the Original Cheeky Girl ... If You Thought Lembit Opik Was Odd, Now Meet His Family

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), April 15, 2007

Subjects:

Astronomy

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...mathematics, psychology, ethnology and history, attaining the highest intellectual recognition...and one of the few truly outstanding astronomers of our century. He was the first to propose...President Lembit Opik? If so, it would be history coming full circle after the way his...
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Stanford Site Enlightens on Mysteries of the Sun

Newspaper article by Joe Szadkowski; The Washington Times, November 14, 1999

Subjects:

Stanford University

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Internet and a Web site developed by Stanford University, junior astronomers can delve into the mysteries of this flaming mass and try...on the Sun" explains the intense phenomenon. For a bit of history, check out the Solar Folklore section, which explores the...

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Science

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...19th cent. is largely the history of the individual branches...spectroscope. Increasingly astronomers made use of the instruments...addition to biological evolution, astronomers have been concerned with stellar...as a whole. Never before in history has science played such a...
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Astronomy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...a quality far exceeding those of earthbound instruments. Bibliography See A. Berry, Short History of Astronomy (1961); J. L. Dreyer, History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler (2d ed. 1953); A. Koyre, The Astronomical Revolution (1973...
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Uranus , in Astronomy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...indicate that the moon fell apart and then reassembled after a collision in its early history. In 1977, during an occultation by Uranus of a star, astronomers detected a system of nine narrow rings of small, dark particles orbiting around the...
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Black Hole

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...phases of gravitational collapse (the final stage in the life history of certain stars; see stellar evolution ) by the American...X-1, an X-ray source in the constellation Cygnus. In 1994 astronomers employing the Hubble Space Telescope announced that they...
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Ptolemy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...observations regarding the motions of the planets, his place in the history of science is that of collator and expounder. He systematized...the precession of the equinoxes and other phenomena, later astronomers found it necessary to add more epicycles and to make both...

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