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Great Astronomers
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Author : Ball
language : en
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Release Date : 1895
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Great Astronomers
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Author : Robert Stawell Ball
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 1895
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Author : S. Ball Robert
language : en
Publisher: Double 9 Books
Release Date : 2023-05
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Sir Robert S. Ball's book 'Great Astronomers' is an interesting look at the lives and accomplishments of some of the most important people in the history of astronomy. From ancient times to the 19th century, the book talks about the lives of famous scientists like Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, and Herschel. Ball's writing style is interesting and easy to understand, which makes it easy to understand difficult ideas about the universe. He talks about a lot of different things, from what the old Greeks found to Kepler's groundbreaking work and the laws of planetary motion to how Galileo invented the telescope and Herschel found Uranus. The book talks about not only what these great astronomers did in science, but also their personal lives, problems, and successes.
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Author : Robert Stawell Ball
language : en
Publisher: 1st World Publishing
Release Date : 2005-10
Great Astronomers written by Robert Stawell Ball and has been published by 1st World Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It has been my object in these pages to present the life of each astronomer in such detail as to enable the reader to realise in some degree the man's character and surroundings; and I have endeavoured to indicate as clearly as circumstances would permit the main features of the discoveries by which he has become known. There are many types of astronomers - from the stargazer who merely watches the heavens, to the abstract mathematician who merely works at his desk; it has, consequently, been necessary in the case of some lives to adopt a very different treatment from that which seemed suitable for others.
The Great Astronomers
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Author : Henry Smith Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
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Great Astronomers
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Author : R. S. Ball
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-19
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The lives and discoveries of the Great Astronomers of history. The book covers astronomers such as Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe, Galileo, Newton, Halley, and many more. Each chapter covers one astronomer including their early life, training, and contributions to the field of astronomy. Included in each chapter are illustrations and diagrams of their discoveries and tools they used during their studies.First published in 1895, this edition is derived from the original book with 67 black and white illustrations. As always, this edition is complete and unabridged.
Great Astronomers Nicolaus Copernicus
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Author : Robert Ball
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-04-30
Great Astronomers Nicolaus Copernicus written by Robert Ball and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-30 with categories.
Copernicus, the astronomer, whose discoveries make him the great predecessor of Kepler and Newton, did not come from a noble family, as certain other early astronomers have done, for his father was a tradesman. Chroniclers are, however, careful to tell us that one of his uncles was a bishop. We are not acquainted with any of those details of his childhood or youth which are often of such interest in other cases where men have risen to exalted fame. It would appear that the young Nicolaus, for such was his Christian name, received his education at home until such time as he was deemed sufficiently advanced to be sent to the University at Cracow. The education that he there obtained must have been in those days of a very primitive description, but Copernicus seems to have availed himself of it to the utmost. He devoted himself more particularly to the study of medicine, with the view of adopting its practice as the profession of his life. The tendencies of the future astronomer were, however, revealed in the fact that he worked hard at mathematics, and, like one of his illustrious successors, Galileo, the practice of the art of painting had for him a very great interest, and in it he obtained some measure of success. By the time he was twenty-seven years old, it would seem that Copernicus had given up the notion of becoming a medical practitioner, and had resolved to devote himself to science. He was engaged in teaching mathematics, and appears to have acquired some reputation. His growing fame attracted the notice of his uncle the bishop, at whose suggestion Copernicus took holy orders, and he was presently appointed to a canonry in the cathedral of Frauenhurg, near the mouth of the Vistula. To Frauenburg, accordingly, this man of varied gifts retired. Possessing somewhat of the ascetic spirit, he resolved to devote his life to work of the most serious description. He eschewed all ordinary society, restricting his intimacies to very grave and learned companions, and refusing to engage in conversation of any useless kind. It would seem as if his gifts for painting were condemned as frivolous; at all events, we do not learn that he continued to practise them. In addition to the discharge of his theological duties, his life was occupied partly in ministering medically to the wants of the poor, and partly with his researches in astronomy and mathematics. His equipment in the matter of instruments for the study of the heavens seems to have been of a very meagre description. He arranged apertures in the walls of his house at Allenstein, so that he could observe in some fashion the passage of the stars across the meridian. That he possessed some talent for practical mechanics is proved by his construction of a contrivance for raising water from a stream, for the use of the inhabitants of Frauenburg. Relics of this machine are still to be Been. The intellectual slumber of the Middle Ages was destined to be awakened by the revolutionary doctrines of Copernicus. It may be noted, as an interesting circumstance, that the time at which he discovered the scheme of the solar system has coincided with a remarkable epoch in the world's history. The great astronomer had just reached manhood at the time when Columbus discovered the new world. Before the publication of the researches of Copernicus, the orthodox scientific creed averred that the earth was stationary, and that the apparent movements of the heavenly bodies were indeed real movements. Ptolemy had laid down this doctrine 1,400 years before. In his theory this huge error was associated with so much important truth, and the whole presented such a coherent scheme for the explanation of the heavenly movements, that the Ptolemaic theory was not seriously questioned until the great work of Copernicus appeared. No doubt others, before Copernicus, had from time to time in some vague fashion surmised, with more or less plausibility, that the sun..
Great Astronomers
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Author : Robert S. Ball
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-02-27
Great Astronomers written by Robert S. Ball and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-27 with categories.
Sir Robert Stawell Ball was an Irish astronomer who founded the screw theory. In 1908 he published A Treatise on Spherical Astronomy, which is a textbook on astronomy starting from spherical trigonometry and the celestial sphere, considering atmospheric refraction and aberration of light, and introducing basic use of a generalised instrument. Ball became celebrated for his popular lectures on science. He gave an estimated 2500 lectures between 1875 and 1910 in towns and cities across Britain and Ireland.
Great Astronomers
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Author : Sir Robert Stawell Ball
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1904
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The Great Astronomers
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Author : Robert S Ball
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-06-23
The Great Astronomers written by Robert S Ball and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-23 with categories.
The author says "It has been my object in these pages of astronomer biography to present the life of each astronomer in such detail as to enable the reader to realise in some degree the man's character and surroundings; and I have endeavoured to indicate as clearly as circumstances would permit the main features of the discoveries by which he has become known." This edition features all the original illustrations, carefully restored for modern printing methods to really bring these amazing scientists alive.